Mark Hensler — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:01:36 +0000

Have you tried searching HotScripts.com or Google?

ywith — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:05:18 +0000

Listen, my knowledge of PHP is neglegeble, but if you could just send me a sample page that say takes the information from one site (you choose - you can get it to take stuff from my own site - higherengineranking.com/ywith if you want) and then I can adapt it to my needs. Could you please help?????

If you can help me I would add your link to my website.

Oh yeah this reminds me, zollet, give me your link again since you helped me with the hotmail window thingy.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:34:54 +0000

I don't have a copy of that email anymore. I basically explained that you need to pattern match the source code for the information you wish to grab. If your language of choice is PHP, then you should read up on and te function preg_match().

Some notes to keep in mind...
- If the target site changes their source code, your script will need updated.

- If you have access to the target site's source, put comment tags around your desired text. This will make it easier to grab with a REGEX statement.

- If the desired text is stored in a DB, gain access to the DB. It's easier to query a DB than do a screen scrap.

ywith — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:21:34 +0000

Mark, you said in one of the threads that you emailed the guy with how to do it. I am hardly able to read his email to do it. It seems that you don't wish to post it because you don't want people nicking content from others. Fair enough, I take your point, but the reason I want it is to kind of take information from my own site if that makes any sense. I need it to take information from another site I own you see so I am allowed to do it. I'll do a search for this scraping thing and for this page ripper, but could you also send me an email how to do it as well.

adam@ywith.com is the email. Thanks alot.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:04:22 +0000

What you want is called "Screen Scrapping."
You can do a google search or check these threads:

http://webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?threadid=14505
http://webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?threadid=17280

openmind — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:35:14 +0000

What language are you using? If ColdFusion then the link would run something like this:

<a href="newpage.cfm?Query=YouQueryString">New Page</a>

What's happening here is that the page the link is on, the referring page, is sending a variable "Query" to the new page. The new page is then taking this variable and using it to manipulate the page results based on the variable through a query or whatever.

Does this help?