can i grab/scrap the contents of a webpage

[perlkeats]

hi

is it possible to grab/scrap the contants of a web page in php

keats

 

[BabyJeffy]

Yes, you can read the contents/output from a URL/webpage and store them in a variable server-side. You could then manipulate the contents of the variable. A good knowledge of regular expressions and/or some perl will take you a long way as well.

There are some posts in the FAQs section in this that may help you.

Cheers,
Jeff


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[BabyJeffy]

Here are couple of external URLs that also should help:

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/470/webparse.html

http://www.devnewz.com/devnewz-3-20041221UsingPHPCURLLibrarytoScrapetheInternet.html

Cheers,
Jeff

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