On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Nathan Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to make what in effect is a website scraper using PHP, but it isn't > obvious how this would best be done. I've tried using DOMDocument and I'm > not sure if that's the best option or not. I'd really like to use something > where I could use XPath to get the elements out that I want. Recently I > wrote a similar program in C# that I call HttpAnalyzer. Could I just use > that with PHP (i.e. call it from PHP) to get what I'm looking for? Any > suggestions? >
I hate to sound like a heretic by mentioning it on a PHP mailing list, but I always turn to BeautifulSoup (Python) for this sort of thing. It's absolutely incredible. You may all now return to your PHP scraping :) justin -- http://justinhileman.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
