PHP Scrape and getting a certain line

[wwfc_barmy_army]

Hello.

 

I'm working on a scraping script and I just need to get this last thing; I need to get the line of text that starts with "Password:".

 

Can i use this bit of code:

// extract text from HTML
echo $html->plaintext;

 

And use some kind of if statement after? Or is there a better way?

 

Thanks for any advice/code

[.josh]

preg_match('~^Password:.*~',$string,$match);

 

can't be more specific than that without more info.

[wwfc_barmy_army]

Hello.

 

I've tried:

 

$outputtext = $html->plaintext;
preg_match('~^Password:.*~',$outputtext,$match);
//print_r($match);
//echo $match;

foreach ($match as $value) {
   echo $value;
}

 

But it doesn't return anything. Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

[.josh]

can't be more specific than that without more info.

[wwfc_barmy_army]

What info do you need to know Crayon Violent ?

 

Thanks.

[.josh]

Oh I don't know, maybe the actual subject to which you are trying to scrape the info from might be nice. You know, the context of the situation.  That sort of thing helps. 

[shlumph]

I don't want my password to be scraped  :-\

[.josh]

Okay well then I'm sorry, I can't give you any more specific help.  According to your OP you said:

 

I'm working on a scraping script and I just need to get this last thing; I need to get the line of text that starts with "Password:".

 

That pattern starts at the beginning of a line and looks for that exact string, matching everything to the end of that line. If print_r($match) is not showing anything then $outputtext does not contain what you think it does.  That could be because your script does not properly assign the content to it, or it could be that the info you supplied about the context is bogus.  As in, maybe "Password:" isn't really at the beginning of the string, or maybe that's not how it's spelled (even case-sensitive).

 

I'd start out by echoing $outputtext to see if it has data in it in the first place.

[wwfc_barmy_army]

Crayon Violent:

Ok Crayon Violent, i'll check over my variables.

 

P.s. shlumph posted that last post not me.

 

shlumph:

They are archive passwords, not account passwords or anything.