PHP Web Scraper???

[thinkaboutit]

I need to pull some data from various yellow page resources and need some kind of scraper to pull the data for export so I can parse it. Any ideas of any decent scripts out there that will help me achieve this? 

[Yesideez]

http://www.pictureinthesky.net/utils/ripper.php

 

You mean anything like that?

[thinkaboutit]

What I need to do is for an example pull company names, addresses and phone numbers from a yellow page web site such as yellow pages .com by category and location.

[phpSensei]

http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/PHP-Clases/PHP-Scraper-19889.html

[thinkaboutit]

Right on - thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

[phpSensei]

Glad we can help 

[thinkaboutit]

Last question... At least I hope. I ran a test scrap on the following using the following code which isn't spitting out anything. Hmmm... I test it with the Yahoo Finance and it works fine. Suggestions?

 

<?
require_once ("class_scraper.php");

// Get html --------
$o_sc = new scraper();
$s_html = $o_sc->fetch("http://www.magicyellow.com/category/General_Contractors/Denver_CO.html");

// Delimit start and end of patterns
$s_start_pattern = "<td class";
$s_end_pattern = "</td>";

// Pattern structure
$s_model = '<tr
<td class="lName" colspan=2 width="100%">
<field>
</td>
<strong style="font-size: 11px;">
<field>
</strong>
<td colspan=2>
<field>
<br>
';

$a_result = $o_sc->extract($s_html, $s_start_pattern, $s_end_pattern, $s_model);
print_r ($a_result);

?>

[thinkaboutit]

To give you a brief run down - I am interested in pulling all the data below for each individual listing: This is from the following page: http://www.magicyellow.com/category/General_Contractors/Denver_CO.html.

 

What my ultimate goal here is to have it auto populate listings based upon category and location.  ???

 

<tr valign="top">
								<td class="lName" colspan=2 width="100%">

									SPECTRUM GENERAL CONTRACTORS
								</td>

								<td rowspan="2" align="right" nowrap>

									<strong style="font-size: 11px;">303-329-8003</strong> <br>										
										 											
										<br><a href="/review.cfm?MYID=14231297" title="Write a review for SPECTRUM GENERAL CONTRACTORS"><img src="/writeAreview.gif" width="76" height="12" alt="" border="0"></a>

								</td>
							</tr>				
								<tr>
									<td colspan=2>
										5135 E 38th Ave<br>
										Denver, CO 80207
									</td>
								</tr>