Extracting HTML Data with Curl / PHP

Question

I have the following code in PHP

$ch = curl_init("http://blog.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);      
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;

I am trying to import the block of code in between <div id="content"> and </div> I would like to know the best way of extracting this code.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3650125/how-to-parse-html-with-php — deceze, Oct 05 '10 at 05:46
also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/best-methods-to-parse-html — jay.lee, Oct 05 '10 at 05:46

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '10 at 05:49

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DOM would be the best way. Here's a detailed documentation: http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php

answered Oct 05 '10 at 05:49

Ruel

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This answer doesn't completely answer the question. Create a DOM using it doesn't show the DOM creation process. – Scott Fleming Jan 03 '22 at 23:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '13 at 20:52

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Using curl, the $output will be an String, so create a DOM using it:

$html = str_get_html($content);

Than, get the content:

$content = $html->find('#content');

answered Feb 19 '13 at 20:52

raittes

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thanks for your answer, but its not working in mine, when i try to pass string in str_get_html it will give me so many code – hio Jul 27 '21 at 17:28

Extracting HTML Data with Curl / PHP

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