web scraping

Hi,

Can anyone guide me to the best resouce or learning materials for web scraping?

Thanks in advance

crazynp

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There isn't much that you need besides www.php.net/file and www.php.net/file_get_contents

Those should get you started.

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Thanks for the reply. It has been so long anyone has replied to this thread. But I have been using the Curl function now. The main problem I am facing now is to get the result eithout the hyperlinks and unmeangiful characters like ..., http://...../ .

Also do you have any idea or suggestion or hints or anything to make the realsitic article from the result with different unwanted characters.

Thanks in advance!

crazynp

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Use www.php.net/preg_match to match the particular contents that you want from the page.

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