web scraping

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crazynp 0 Junior Poster in Training

17 Years Ago

Hi,

Can anyone guide me to the best resouce or learning materials for web scraping?

Thanks in advance

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Gary King 37 PHP/vBulletin Guru

17 Years Ago

There isn't much that you need besides www.php.net/file and www.php.net/file_get_contents

Those should get you started.

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crazynp 0 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 1 · 2007-02-08T18:05:30+00:00

Thanks for the reply. It has been so long anyone has replied to this thread. But I have been using the Curl function now. The main problem I am facing now is to get the result eithout the hyperlinks and unmeangiful characters like ..., http://...../.

Also do you have any idea or suggestion or hints or anything to make the realsitic article from the result with different unwanted characters.

Thanks in advance!

Gary King 37 PHP/vBulletin Guru Team Colleague · Answer 2 · 2007-02-09T20:11:17+00:00

Use www.php.net/preg_match to match the particular contents that you want from the page.