Screen Scrapping

sharmasumit83

Dear Sir,

I am Sumit Sharma from India, Jaipur.

I want to do the Screen Scraping with PHP.

Can Screen Scraping is possible in PHP?

Actually, I want to made a script in which the news is get from the news site. When the news
site updates its news, the script news will updates automatically on the site in which the script is pasted.

For Example:-

I like the news on indiatimes.com and i want to made a script, from which, I will get a updated
news on my site from indiatimes.com Automatically updates on my site with respect to
indiatimes.com news updation.

I am waiting for your reply.

Thanking you, Sir

Yours faithfully,
Sumit Sharma
WEB: http://www.sumitinfoway.tk
http://www.sumitsharma.tk

Weedpacket

If by "screen scraping" you mean the practice of taking snapshots of a machine's video memory in order to determine what it's displaying, then no.

But I think from what you're describing is that you want is to get content from another site. In that case, you'd proabbly use the file functions to open and read the page (fopen() can be given a URL, and it will open it as if it were a read-only file). What you do without the resulting HTML page depends on how it's laid out and which bits you want, but there are a number of string functions that should allow you to search for and match the bits of interest.

superwormy

www.php.net/fsockopen
www.php.net/fread
www.php.net/fwrite
www.php.net/fclose
www.php.net/fopen
www.php.net/stristr