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mschrank99

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What I would love to have is addresses within a certain zip code based on what I search put into an array.

 

For example, I put in "police station" and this hypothetical PHP program goes and searches google, or mapquest/yahoo etc, and returns a neat array of information that I can use to create points on a google map.

 

Does this exist? Is there any way to use PHP to run and return an address search on an external site like google or mapquest?

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It's called web parsing. As far as there being another script out there, I am sure there is. You just have to search a little. If not it would not be too hard to create. Just gotta parse the results.

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