The easiest way of getting data from different site

Question

I want to grab static data from different website (URL and elements name provided), what's the easiest way?

www.address/articles/grab-this

<html> (...) <article id="#article-121"> <h1>Header</h1> <p>Contents</p> </article> (...) </html>

index.php

/* Grab "#article-121" from www.address/articles/grab-this */ <article id="#article-121"> <h1>Header</h1> <p>Contents</p> </article> /* Close the connection */

duplicated search parse html php

dynamic
– dynamic

2011-07-25 12:57:43 +00:00
Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 12:57 — dynamic
– dynamic, Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 12:57
possible duplicate of Best methods to parse HTML with PHP

Gordon
– Gordon

2011-07-25 13:02:13 +00:00
Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 13:02 — Gordon
– Gordon, Commented Jul 25, 2011 at 13:02

Eruant · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-25 12:58:54Z

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$contents = file_get_contents(url_goes_here);

answered Jul 25, 2011 at 12:58

Eruant

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2 Comments

Wordpressor Over a year ago

This is a great answer, but I guess getting exact element based on ID is much more harder?

Eruant Over a year ago

Yes, that is true. Once you have the $contents you should be able to manipulate/parse it

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