I want to extract some information from a web site and display it on my site, since this web site does not support RSS or any other means to do it. The information I'm interested in is in a div that has a specific class. I'm looking for a joomla extension that will either use an xslt or xpath provided by me in order to extract this information and display it. Do you have any ideas, considering that the intellectual property issues have been resolved already?
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You can try parsing the page you want the information from. Then when parsing look for the div tag who's class/name/id is something then record the information within that. Have a look at this thread about parsing html with php.
Martin
2010-10-21 14:01:53
Thanks, but my question is if there is already an extension that does that. I don't want to get into php and joomla extension development right now.
papadi
2010-10-22 13:52:35
OK, you should ask this on http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/ as this is a coding forum. I'm not aware of an extension that does what you ask. In most cases it is illegal to copy another site's content so I can't see anyone developing a component for Joomla like that.
Martin
2010-10-22 15:16:13