Dears, how to get div or content informations text and pictures from another website and show in my webpage?
Please help!
gogs85
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Jump to PostOne way is to screenscape, but in my opinion that's not very ethical unless you have consent. Another method is to pull in data via a Feed (RSS for example) or an API.
What is the overall goal?
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JorgeM
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One way is to screenscape, but in my opinion that's not very ethical unless you have consent. Another method is to pull in data via a Feed (RSS for example) or an API.
What is the overall goal?
bops
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http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
This should work for remote files. You can then parse out what you need using regular expressions i.e. http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php
As mentioned above by JorgeM, doing something like that isn't really the most ethical depending on what you're trying to achieve
diafol
Agree 100% with JorgeM. Scraping other people's stuff is just theft unless you have consent, and you shouldn't do it. In addition, scaping sites has its downsides too - you are totally at the mercy of the site owner as to whether you s/he will continue to maintain the data in the same format or even at all.
An API is far friendlier. One word about file_get_contents - it may not always be available on your host as some disable it. In this case you need to use cURL.
mrvijayakumar
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Agree with JorgeM point.
Anyway, try this http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ . It will works perfect...
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