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user470760
user470760

Reputation:

Parse Website for Download Links?

I have written a small tool for our customers that downloads the latest stable version of this software for our customers from a permanent link provided by the developers. However, their beta and developmental versions do have permanent links, thus requiring me to manually update the code everytime.

Would there be any easy method of parsing this site http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/ to obtain the link to the most recent download URL of each type? (Release/Beta/Developmental)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 321

Answers (2)

MakuraYami
MakuraYami

Reputation: 3428

require_once('simple_html_dom.php');

$html = file_get_html('http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/');

$dom = new DOMDocument;
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
echo $dom->loadHTML($html) ? "success<br/>" : "failed<br/>";
libxml_clear_errors();
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = true;


foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('div') as $element){
    if($element->getAttribute('class') == "innerContent"){
        foreach ($element->getElementsByTagName('a') as $link) {
            if( $link->getAttribute('class') == "tooltipd")
            {
                echo $link->getAttribute('href')."<br/>";
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Julian Hollmann
Julian Hollmann

Reputation: 2912

Just take a look at this PHP Lib: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ It does exactly what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 1

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