Simple page scraping with PHP?

[jim.dandy]

What is the best meathod to scrape webpages? 

 

 

[unrelenting]

I don't know about 'best' but you can do it with file_get_contents or cURL.

[Maq]

What is the best meathod to scrape webpages? 

 

 

 

There are a lot of posts in the PHP section about this.  It also depends if you need to post variables, login, etc...

 

We need more information.

[jim.dandy]

<?php

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){

        $string = " ".$string;

        $ini = strpos($string,$start);

        if ($ini == 0) return "";

        $ini += strlen($start);

        $len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;

        return substr($string,$ini,$len);

}

 

$data = file_get_contents('http://www.thepiratebay.org/top/201');

 

$data2 = explode("<td>",$data);

echo count($data2);

 

for($x=0;$x<count($data2);$x++){

 

echo get_string_between($data2[$x], "Y-day", ".torrent");

 

}

 

?>

 

 

 

I found a function someone made that grabs a string between two strings.  It kinda works but doesn't grab everything I want.  I dont understand why it won't work.

[Daniel0]

Use DOM.