Steal stuff from other websites?

danieloberg

Hi there,
How do I steal stuff from other websites?
If I e.g. want to steal headlines from a newspaper
website, so they automatically show up on mine,
how do I do that?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
DanielOberg

cahva

Im too lazy to write the whole script for you but heres something...

$raw_html_array=file("http://www.newssite.com/index.html");        // read the html-file from the news-site 
$raw_html_string=join('',$raw_html_array);         

$raw_string=strip_tags($raw_html_string);        // Strip html-tags

Then use preg_match(); to find the headlines from that site..

netmastan

here is one example ,I got this code from hotscripts.

<?
$GrabURL = "http://something.com/test.html";  //-  Complete URL of the page your grabbing from!
$GrabStart = '<body>';  //- HTML Code To Start Grab. Must Be A Unique Bit Of Code!
$GrabEnd = '</body>';  //- HTML Code To End Grab. Must Be A Unique Bit Of Code!

$OpenFile = fopen("$GrabURL", "r"); 
if(!$OpenFile)die("Could not load data");
$RetrieveFile = fread($OpenFile, 20000);  //- Reduce This To Save Memory
$GrabData = eregi("$GrabStart(.*)$GrabEnd", $RetrieveFile, $DataPrint);
$DataPrint[1] = str_replace("am", "AM", $DataPrint[1]); //  replace word am to AM
fclose($OpenFile);//file close

echo "$DataPrint[1]";
?>

Any other way..so I can learn something ..

greg252

Is it ethical/ legal to strip information from another site?
I guess if you want to steal links, it's o.k.-they are public domain. But headlines and articles I think are copyrighted.
Be careful!

the_Igel

Of course it's very bad. Most of news sites etc dislike stealing their content. On the other hand, those who like it, often offer RSS feeds or some other ways for syndicating.
Anyway, if you want to grab others' content, you should ask for permission (in case there aren't any public syndication handles on the site).

cbailster

If your site is for personal/non-commercial use then why not try moreover (www.moreover.com) they have newsfeeds on a whole series of topics available in a whole series of formats (ticker applet, xml, csv, etc)