Grabbing a ever changing list of people from a website! Is it possible?

[zrweber]

I've had this concept for something I've been wanting to do for awhile, but I need to know if it's even possible in PHP. I've been seriously playing with PHP for a few months now and here's what I was wanting to do.

 

On this website there is a list of players currently online

http://www.tibia.com/community/?subtopic=worlds&world=Solera

Is there anyway I could grab those list of players and store their names into a .txt file?

 

This is just for fun. My actual goal is to create something that's grabbing that list of players every 5 minutes and showing me who has logged off and who has logged on.

[spiderwell]

anything is possible really  , but first off i would ask the site if they have an API you can plug into or some kind of xml feed?

alternatively you will want to fetch the page, and parse it appropriately to get the data you need with get_file_contents()

[chaseman]

You could program a bot with cURL combined with PHP.

[TheSky]

maybe simple html dom google it makes lot of work for you.