Comments on: PHP: Write a Web Page Scraper http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/ Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: stevo http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-34285 stevo Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:22:21 +0000 http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-34285 I'm a bit confused on this. A big part of the article focuses on getting the web page, which IMO is simple (Even an fopen($url) should suffice). But I am a bit confused on how you are extracting/scraping the data. Can you please provide more information into Xpath, how you used it in PHP, and how it works in general? I tried wikipedia without too much luck (on xQuery and xPath) thanks I’m a bit confused on this. A big part of the article focuses on getting the web page, which IMO is simple (Even an fopen($url) should suffice).

But I am a bit confused on how you are extracting/scraping the data. Can you please provide more information into Xpath, how you used it in PHP, and how it works in general? I tried wikipedia without too much luck (on xQuery and xPath)
thanks

]]> By: Electron Soup : Learning page scraping and mashups http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-12667 Electron Soup : Learning page scraping and mashups Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:37:23 +0000 http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-12667 [...] the instructions in the article “PHP: Write a Web Page Scraper” I have been able to grab a link to each penalty notice’s details page, and then grab [...] […] the instructions in the article “PHP: Write a Web Page Scraper” I have been able to grab a link to each penalty notice’s details page, and then grab […]

]]> By: admin http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-10148 admin Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:34:33 +0000 http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-10148 The website layout is changed. The XQuery has to be modified accordingly. The website layout is changed. The XQuery has to be modified accordingly.

]]> By: Caio Iglesias http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-10115 Caio Iglesias Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:05:53 +0000 http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-10115 Running your code exactly as it is doesn't work on my server. Any ideas? Running your code exactly as it is doesn’t work on my server. Any ideas?

]]> By: Ruben Zevallos Jr. http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-4036 Ruben Zevallos Jr. Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:16:35 +0000 http://twit88.com/blog/2008/02/04/php-write-a-web-page-scraper/#comment-4036 Very nice article... I did my Web Scraping, but it have to navigate and get info from lot's of web sites... I'm looking for some way to do it without to much effort... Thank you for you ideas... Very nice article… I did my Web Scraping, but it have to navigate and get info from lot’s of web sites… I’m looking for some way to do it without to much effort…

Thank you for you ideas…

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