web scraping question

[n8w]

I think what I want to do is web scrape .. but how would I write a script to do the following.

I want to run a script every 30 minutes (using .htaccess I guess) that will view http://www.illustrationmundo.com and save the source exactly how a browser would see it as a file .. cached.php

How do I go about this?

Thanks

[esukf]

You should be able to do this by setting up a cronjob and use wget rather than a php script.

Try :-

wget http://www.illustrationmundo.com -O cache.php

[n8w]

wow .. very cool! .. so if I want to run this every 5 minutes would it be

5 * * * * wget http://www.illustrationmundo.com -O cache.php

[esukf]

I'm not too familiar with the command but think 5 * * * * runs every 5th minute of the hour ie. 0:05, 1:05

Try

*/5 * * * * wget http://www.illustrationmundo.com -O cache.php

Also probably best to use the fullpath where you save the file. Not sure where cron saves to by default.