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Ryan Etsell
Ryan Etsell

Reputation: 3

Scraping specific text from a webpage using xpath

I've searched and tried multiple ways to get this but I'm not sure why it won't find most of the information on the webpage.

Page to scrape: https://m.safeguardproperties.com/

Info needed: Version number for PhotoDirect for Apple (currently 4.4.0)

Xpath to text needed (I think) : /html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[3]/a

Attempts:

<?php

$file = "https://m.safeguardproperties.com/";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);

$xpath = new DOMXpath($doc);

$elements = $xpath->query("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[4]/div[3]/a");

echo "<PRE>";

if (!is_null($elements)) {
  foreach ($elements as $element) {
      var_dump ($element);
    echo "<br/>[". $element->nodeName. "]";

    $nodes = $element->childNodes;
    foreach ($nodes as $node) {
      echo $node->nodeValue. "\n";
    }
  }
}

echo "</PRE>";

?>

Second Attempt:

<?PHP
$file = "https://m.safeguardproperties.com/";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);

echo '<pre>';

  // trying to find all links in document to see if I can see the correct one
  $links = [];
  $arr = $doc->getElementsByTagName("a");

  foreach($arr as $item) { 
    $href =  $item->getAttribute("href");
    $text = trim(preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", " ", $item->nodeValue));
    $links[] = [
      'href' => $href,
      'text' => $text
    ];
  }

var_dump($links);
echo '</pre>';
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (1)

Scuzzy
Scuzzy

Reputation: 12332

For that particular website, the versions are being loaded from JSON data client side, you won't find them in the base document.

http://m.safeguardproperties.com/js/photodirect.json

This was located by comparing the original document source to the finished DOM and inspecting the network activity in the developer console.

$url = 'https://m.safeguardproperties.com/js/photodirect.json';
$json = file_get_contents( $url );
$object = json_decode( $json );
echo $object->ios->version; //4.4.0

Please respect other websites and cache your GET request.

Upvotes: 1

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