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Steve
Steve

Reputation: 55

PHP scraping text from a specific class on another website

I want to create a script to automatically grab the text located within a specific class on a wikipedia page. For example, I want to get the musician Avicii's real name (Tim Bergling) from his wikipedia page. From google's inspect element I found that his name is stored in a class called "nickname": 

<td class="nickname">Tim Bergling</td>

I would like to get the contents of the nickname class. I found a few threads that helped me out with some of the code, but I cannot get it to work correctly. Here is what I have so far:

<?php

$wiki= file_get_contents("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicii");
preg_match("/\<td class\=\"nickname\"\>(.*?)\<\/td\>/",$wiki,$n);
print $n; 

?>

Ultimately I want this name sent to a specific class on my website where it will be displayed. For now, I would just be content getting it to print. Thanks :)

Edit: I should clarify that I'm very new to PHP and coding in general, but I've picked it up quick and I'm trying to push myself. I appreciate your time very much!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3978

Answers (1)

Jiř&#237; Velek
Jiř&#237; Velek

Reputation: 165

You should be using a DOMDocument class instead of preg_match,try :

$html = file_get_contents("your url");
$DOM = new DOMDocument();
$DOM->loadHTML($html);
$finder = new DomXPath($DOM);
$classname = 'nickname';
$nodes = $finder->query("//*[contains(@class, '$classname')]");
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
  echo $node->nodeValue;
}

Upvotes: 2

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