Getting content from another website

[rasmushs]

Hi everybody

 

I'm pretty new in coding but hope you can help me!

 

My problem: I want my webpage always to show the first news story from http://www.bbc.com/.

 

So every time a user goes to my website the first news story from bbc is showed (like on bbc), but when the user clicks on the link on my webpage he's redirected to bbc.com

 

How is that possible to create?

[dalecosp]

I'd go to BBC's site and see if they have an RSS feed, XML/Soap Service, JSON feed, etc.

 

That way you'd not be likely to violate any T.O.S. that they might already have in place....

[QuickOldCar]

I think just the uk bbc has feeds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494

[rasmushs]

I would prefer to go strictly by code. Isn't that possible?

[.josh]

Yes it's possible. It can possibly be as simple as using file_get_contents but may be difficult and require some advanced cURL trickery.

 

The important thing though is making sure you do not violate their ToS.

[rasmushs]

Sounds great. Any links to any tutorials?

 

What do you mean by: "violate their ToS"?

[rasmushs]

For people finding this thread in the future: This worked for me..

 

 <?php
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://olsensanonymous.blogspot.dk/');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 300);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  file_put_contents("text trendspider.txt", $data);
  curl_close($ch);
?>



Then you just have to sort out the parts of the code that you want to use

[dalecosp]

Sounds great. Any links to any tutorials?

 

What do you mean by: "violate their ToS"?

 

As we said above, "ToS" is "Terms of Service".  Blogspot is a Google property.  It would be a good idea to have your legal department, attorney, or supervisor understand what you are doing, and then read this.