phpx Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Hello every one this is my first post. I am making a traffic cam app and i like to use page scraping to pull information trafficland.com to a different page. http://trafficland.com/city/DET/index.html Following site generate a token every 10 minute I like to pull only the pubtoken=283d5730c53e406f7ea051c4c89c31fd to a different page. Source code of http://trafficland.com/city/DET/index.html: <div id="cams" class='module'> <div style="height: 125px;"> <img id="8480" width="115" height="78" src="http://pub2.camera.trafficland.com/image/live.jpg?webid=8480&system=topcams&size=half&pubtoken=283d5730c53e406f7ea051c4c89c31fd" onmouseout='hideHelper()' onmouseover='showHelper("Detroit","I-275 @ Grand River Ave")' onclick='viewTopTen("DET","I-275 @ Grand River Ave","South","MDOT","4000","48335","8480")'/> Any help will be good. Thank you Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255292-need-help-with-a-small-project/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
phpx Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 This is what i got so far. Image is only pulling up to http://pub2.camera.trafficland.com/image/live.jpg how can i make it to pull all the way including the token: http://pub2.camera.trafficland.com/image/live.jpg?webid=8480&system=topcams&size=full&pubtoken=283d5730c53e406f7ea051c4c89c31fd <?php /* Basic scraping demo with "foreach" and "regex" parsing * Owen Mundy Copyright 2011 GNU/GPL */ // url to start $url = "http://trafficland.com/city/DET/index.html"; // get contents of url in an array $lines = file($url); // look for the string foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { // find opening string if(strpos($line, '<div style="height: 125px;">')) { $get_content = true; } // if opening string is found // then print content until closing string appears if($get_content == true) { $data .= $line . "\n"; } // closing string if(strpos($line, "</div>")) { $get_content = false; } } // use regular expressions to extract only what we need... // png, jpg, or gif inside a src="..." or src='...' $pattern = "/src=[\"']?([^\"']?.*(png|jpg|gif))[\"']?/i"; preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $images); // text from link $pattern = "/(<a.*>)(\w.*)(<.*>)/ismU"; preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $text); // link $pattern = "/(href=[\"'])(.*?)([\"'])/i"; preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $link); /* // test if you like print "<pre>"; print_r($images); print_r($text); print_r($link); print "</pre>"; */ ?> <html> <head> <style> body { margin:0; } .textblock { position:absolute; top:600px; left:0px; } span { font:5.0em/1.0em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height:normal; background:url(trans.png); color:#fff; font-weight:bold; padding:5px } a { text-decoration:none; color:#900 } </style> </head> <body> <img src="<?php print $images[1][0] ?>" height="100%"> </div> <div class="textblock"><span><a href="<?php print "http://www.bbc.co.uk".$link[2][0] ?>"><?php print $text[2][0] ?></a></span><br> </div> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/255292-need-help-with-a-small-project/#findComment-1308922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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