Parser problem PHP

Question

I am going to write a parser that is going to get information from a website.

However something is wrong with this website and soon as i fetch the information and put it in a file, it's all gibberish.

The website is anidb.net

Could anyone tell me why i get gibberish instead of the HTML?

My code

<?php
$url = 'http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=854';

file_put_contents("file.txt", file_get_contents($url));
?>

May i also add that using the browser's View Source function i see the HTML.

You would have to show the gibberish to tell for sure, but chances are that the content you're receiving is gzip encoded. — Pekka, Apr 10 '11 at 09:45
Юэ+=ґw“±•¤№kЖ'»MчљЏ™фљir}ЪбJґНXўt"е]зЇ?Ђ)‹ЦжЪ—µшЃ That's it(if you can see the characters) — dikidera, Apr 10 '11 at 09:50

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

5

I checked the headers on the page that you specified and it's returning:

Content-Encoding: gzip

That means the 'gibberish' you're seeing is indeed gzip encoded. Here's another thread that should help you out: Decode gzipped web page retrieved via cURL in PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Apr 10 '11 at 09:53

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