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What must I learn to parse dynamic HTML sites with PHP?

Answer 1

+6 A:

php's XML manipulation APIs are good to extract data from websites. If the websites you want to scrape are not valid (X)HTML, you might run into some problems, though.

BTW: the term you are looking for is scraping. Take a look at this post on SO and at PHP Simple HTML Dom Parser.

middus 2010-03-21 10:53:25

+1 for taking the time to understand the question and provide a useful answer :) I hope that you quickly gain enough rep to edit questions.

Tim Post 2010-03-21 11:24:44

Thanks for your kind feedback. I appreciate it. :)

middus 2010-03-21 11:29:15

+1 for not suggesting Regex

Gordon 2010-03-21 12:15:33

Answer 2

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Although Website scrapping is always seems to be unintentional yet Simple HTML DOM Parser can help you a lot.

Guru 2010-03-21 11:31:06

Answer 3

+2 A:

I am obligated to say, avoid regular expressions :)

Tim Post 2010-03-21 11:34:53

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