web fetching (grab)

nagasea

what's the best way to do this kind of job (web fetching / grab).
for stocks quotes / weather ? or even difficult task like price grabbing.

any suggestion of ready made scripts ?

Bunkermaster

RSS feeds or any XML/parseable content. You could use a script to parse a website and retreive information from it but it's not worth the time if no RSS/XML feed is available

xeelee

not sure if this is what u looking for...
below is a script to grab the title of a webpage


$url = "http://www.yahoo.com";
$pt = parsetitle($url);
echo "Title: " . $pt;

function parsetitle($url) {
	$file = @fopen($url, 'r');

if($file) {
	while (!feof($file)){
	   $line = @fgets($file, 1024);
	   # you can effectively get any value from a webpage if you know
	   # the pattern surrounding the value u want
	   if (eregi('<title>(.*)</title>', $line, $out)) {
		 $content = $out[1];
		 break;
	   }
	 }
	//empty($content) ? print '' : print $content; 
	return rawurldecode($content);

	@fclose($file);
} else {
	return "Cannot find what u looking for sorry";
}
}

xeelee