esiason14 Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 Hi,I'm trying to pull data for a few players from another site. This is NOT for commercial use..Anyway, I want to pull the following info:Player name, jersey number, position, team, height, weight, birthdate...and then later on their career stats.So far this is what I have (this only works for the player name, jersey number and position so far):[code]<?phpfor($count=6619;$count<=6619;$count++) {/*** Load the page here ***/$input = file_get_contents("http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/{$count}/career");// *** Finding the info, First Name, Last Name, Jersey Number, Position ***/preg_match('@(?<="yspsctnhdln"\>)([^<]+)<\/span>\s*#(\d+)\s([^<]+)\s([^<]+)\s@ism', $input, $info);$name = explode(" ", $info[1]);$jersey = trim($info[2], " | ");$initialposition = explode("/", $info[3]);$position = trim($initialposition[0], " | ");$team = explode(" ", $info[4]);preg_match('@<span class="yspscores" style="line-height:140%;">([.]+)\sWeight:([^<]+)<br>\s</span>@i', $input, $match);$height = explode("Height:", $match[1]);$weight = explode(" ", $match[2]);/*** DISPLAYING IT HERE ***/echo '<table>';echo"<tr><td>{$count}</td><td>{$name[0]}</td><td>{$name[1]}</td><td>{$jersey}</td><td>{$position}</td><td>{$match[2]}</td></tr>";echo '</table>';}?>[/code]I know I messed up the heigh, weight and team regex,etc. I was hoping someone coulc point me in the right direction. Heres the html:Player name, jersey , position and team html to parse[code]<b><span class="yspsctnhdln">Albert Pujols</span> #5 | First Base/Left Field | <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AiO5aw3ziz_LLaUn2BcY.qiFCLcF/SIG=11ajpqctg/**http%3a//sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/stl" >St. Louis Cardinals</a></b></td> <td align="right" class="yspgens">[/code]height, weight, birthdate html to parse: [code] <span class="yspscores" style="line-height:140%;"> Height: 6-3 Weight: 225<br> Bats: R Throws: R<br> Born: Jan 16, 1980 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic<br> College: Maple Woods (MO) CC<br> Draft: 1999 - 13th round by the St. Louis Cardinals <br></span>[/code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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