arianhojat Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 I need to get to my stock watch list and parse some stock qoutes for my personal watch/alert program I am building, So I have to goto my 8th portfolio... http://finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_8, but it needs my username/password combo before going in (i already have these of course but want a way to get 'into the' page via php). how can i pass these in, and get the HTML contents of the page, which once in a variable i know how to cleanup and parse? I think i read something about cURL and i was wondering if someone could help me with a quick n; dirty example on what to use. Thanks, Arian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gargoylemusic Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 cURL is what I use to write all of my bots. There are plenty of cURL tutorials and examples out there (it might be easier to use the command-line version first just to get a feel for it.) What you have to be careful about is negotiating SSL, header information, posted form fields, and cookies. A cURL/http library might be able to help you handle all of this stuff - I myself haven't had a ton of success with them. But this firefox extension will help you track what you have to pass back and forth to the server, I think - it displays all of the headers. http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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