HTML Parsing and Screen Scraping with the Simple HTML DOM Library

May 21st, 2010 admin

If you need to parse HTML, regular expressions aren’t the way to go. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use an open source, easily learned parser , to read, modify, and spit back out HTML from external sources. Using nettuts as an example, you’ll learn how to get a list of all the articles published on the site and display them. Step 1. Preparation The first thing you’ll need to do is download a copy of the simpleHTMLdom library, freely available from sourceforge. There are several files in the download, but the only one you need is the simple_html_dom.php file; the rest are…


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