anyone knows how to do this?? (external webpage processing)

narked

I am trying to base the content on my site to the content of another website so I was thinking in coding a script that would visit that webpage takes the source code and the process that source code to take the information I want. i.e: the links. and then display those lnks in my website but this time with the color of letter and font style I want.

does anyone knows if doing something like this is possible? what would be the best way of doing it?

thanks for the help

musicbase

Sorry can't help you there but did you know it could be illegal as most big websites copyright their content...

maxpup979

its actually simple. use fopen to open a stream to the website, the use a while !eof to start the loop to grab each line (there are other ways to do this), the use fgets to actually grab each line, massage data as needed with an assortment of string functions, and you should be set. Oh...dont forget to close the stream

But realize that this may be illegal, unless you are using it for fair use reasons, or have an agreement with the site in question.

Jasp182

You should see if the website you want content from makes an RSS feed or SOAP service available. That way you won't have to "scrape" the content of their site, and you will also be updated automatically.

As far as scraping, look into socket programming with php. Here's a good starting point:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php