Parsing links in a website

[springo]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to parse the <a href>'s on an external website to relist them on a new page.

How is this achieved?

Thank you very much.

[tarun]

Whats Parsing BTW...?

[per1os]

Parsing means you read through the file and grab only specific contents you want.

 

Here is one way to do it:

 

<?php
$siteData = file_get_contents($siteurl); // can use CURL also

$splitData = spliti('<a', $siteData); // split it at all the <a

foreach ($splitData as $data) {
       list($link) = spliti('</a>', $data);
       $links[] = '<a' . $link . '</a>';
}

print_r($links);
?>

 

That should get you started.

 

EDIT: changed to spliti for case-insensitive

[tarun]

Okay Thnx Ill Look That Up Then

 

Thnx

[springo]

Thanks, I was struggling to do somethign with "preg_match_all" but I couldn't get it to work. I'm going to try to display the results properly, update local paths from the website to absolute to link from mine and also remove <a href>'s from images. If I couldn't do any of these, I'll ask back.

Thanks again!

[per1os]

np, I am the master at parsing data =)

 

http://www.aeonity.com/frost/add-free-movie-listing-reviews-website

 

That is a free script I wrote that is strictly web fetch and allows you to customize movie listings from yahoo completely =)