how to fetch all images of a page?

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i need two tools or scripts in php....

First i need a tool/php scriot that can fetch all the images of a given link of a page,so that i can store those images in my database for later on showing them as the link's thumbnail.

Second i need a tool/php script that can fetch title,description and snapshot thumbnail of the given link of a page.

How can i do so?? Any tool or any php script ??

EDIT: I need something similar to Facebook's thing which you get when you tries to post a 'Link' on anyone's wall or so.

i tried parsing the things up but that's not worth i guess as i need only specific content,moreover evey page has different construction so thats why.. — developer, Mar 17 '11 at 12:33

mravey · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28T15:41:27.500

Maybe this tool is what you are looking for : http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ . You have an example in the Quick Start to get all the images.

Edit : Here is a tutorial if you want : http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/html-parsing-and-screen-scraping-with-the-simple-html-dom-library/

Another way to do it is to use the DOM and the classes included in PHP (doc : http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php). And to fetch all the meta tags of your page you can do :

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML('you_page.php');

$metas = $doc->getElementsByTagName('meta');

foreach ($metas as $meta)
{
    //To get a specific attribute
    echo $meta->getAttribute('your_attribute');
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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You could go with the current trends and use Node: Scrape web pages in real time with Node.js

Though if you're on Windows and Unix scares you it may be more trouble than it's worth.

Justin

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Mar 17 '11 at 12:23

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '11 at 12:51

++ for SimpleHtmlDom

$ret = $html->find('a, img');

and to get title ,etc, you can use the same refer to the manual,

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm

facebook doent't display the screen shot of the website, but a image which it thinks is relevant. They also follow the opengraph protocol,

for example if your website has

<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>

meta tag , then it will use that image as the thumbnail for the wall post/ status.

how to fetch all images of a page?

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