Grab content from another website

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I want to grab anything thats inside the code below on a website.

<table class="eventResults byEvent vevent"></table>

How can I accomplish this? Thanks

Explain the purpose of "grabbing" as it will help us answer the question — Eric, Jul 06 '10 at 18:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

If you want to grab HTML from a site, you will want to use a DOM Parser. PHP has several XML processing packages to help you with this, be it DOM, SimpleXML or XMLReader. An often suggested alternative at SO is SimpleHtmlDom.

Since one of the class in the table is vevent, the content inside the table could be an hCalender microformat (can't tell for sure without seeing the content). If so, you can also use a microformat parser, preferably Transformr to save you the work of manually parsing the event data.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '10 at 18:14

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You can use the file_get_contents function or the curl extension for that.

answered Jul 06 '10 at 18:14

Sarfraz

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Yeah, I'm trying but can't get it to work. – Victor Bjelkholm Jul 06 '10 at 18:17
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@Victor, that's unfortunate..? – Dolph Jul 06 '10 at 18:18
@Victor: You should post your code what you are trying also. – Sarfraz Jul 06 '10 at 18:18

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 11 '11 at 15:10

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First fetch the content of the whole page from that website as a string, then use regular expression to extract the substring inside table tags.

answered Oct 11 '11 at 15:10

Sadaqat Ali

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whole page of your target website can be fetched using cURL. – Sadaqat Ali Feb 07 '13 at 19:42

Grab content from another website

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