placing content on website from another website, without using IFRAME.

[spewn]

i want to list a survey on a website profile that has a commulative list of peoples' answers. Sounds basic...I want to pull the information from another website and present it in realtime to the users of this other, external website...i cannot use iframes, so what is the other option, if any?

thanks for your help.

- g

 

[trollacious]

You can "scrape" the other site using some kind of server-side scripting, then parse out the information from the page you obtain and insert the data into your own format on your own page. How you do that would depend on the server-side scripting technology available from your web hosting service.

Lee

 

[traingamer]

There are likely legal reasons not to do this. It is typically a bad idea to present other peoples data on your page without permission.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[Rieekan]

Not to mention that if/when the other page gets overhauled or changed, your scrape scripts may not work any longer.