Pull text from another website
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Last Post: June 24, 2009 (RSS)
By blind2uriz - June 23, 2009
I have been trying to figure this one out for awhile now. Does anyone know how to pull just text from another website w/o bringing the pictures over using php. I used this and got the whole page w/ pictures.
<?php $url="http://www.url-here.html";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// you can do something with $data like explode(); or a preg match regex to get the exact information you need
echo $data; ?>
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
John
<?php $url="http://www.url-here.html";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
// you can do something with $data like explode(); or a preg match regex to get the exact information you need
echo $data; ?>
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
John
John C. Morris
Interdimensional Designs
www.covdesigns.com
Interdimensional Designs
www.covdesigns.com
Re: [blind2uriz] Pull text from another website
By ross - June 24, 2009
Hi John
Thanks for posting!
This one will likely go a bit beyond what we can do in support but I think you'll want to try taking a look at the preg_replace() function:
http://ca2.php.net/preg_replace
That should let you remove everything between two characters so if you are stripping out images, set it up to remove everything from "<img" to ">". Of course, you'll then want to run another replace to get rid of all the <img> tags that first command would leave behind.
Now, it could end up being that there is a great function that will do this all at once. If anyone else out there had any ideas, let us know :).
Thanks!
Thanks for posting!
This one will likely go a bit beyond what we can do in support but I think you'll want to try taking a look at the preg_replace() function:
http://ca2.php.net/preg_replace
That should let you remove everything between two characters so if you are stripping out images, set it up to remove everything from "<img" to ">". Of course, you'll then want to run another replace to get rid of all the <img> tags that first command would leave behind.
Now, it could end up being that there is a great function that will do this all at once. If anyone else out there had any ideas, let us know :).
Thanks!
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Re: [blind2uriz] Pull text from another website
By ross - June 24, 2009
Just another quick note. My idea in the previous post was based on this bit of code I found when doing some google searching:
Like I said though, that's probably as far as we can take this through support. Feel free to email in consulting (consulting@interactivetools.com). There might be some more options that way.
Thanks!
$cleaned = preg_replace('/<a href=\"(.*?)\">(.*?)<\/a>/', "\\2", $dirty)Like I said though, that's probably as far as we can take this through support. Feel free to email in consulting (consulting@interactivetools.com). There might be some more options that way.
Thanks!
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