How to clean certain data from scratches with a simple html dom analyzer

Question

I am trying to clear data from a web page, but I need to get all the data in this link .

include 'simple_html_dom.php'; $html1 = file_get_html('http://www.aktive-buergerschaft.de/buergerstiftungen/unsere_leistungen/buergerstiftungsfinder'); $info1 = $html1->find('b[class=[what to enter herer ]',0); 

I need to get all the data from this site .

 Bürgerstiftung Lebensraum Aachen rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Ansprechpartner: Hubert Schramm Alexanderstr. 69/ 71 52062 Aachen Telefon: 0241 - 4500130 Telefax: 0241 - 4500131 Email: [e-mail] www.buergerstiftung-aachen.de >> Weitere Details zu dieser Stiftung Bürgerstiftung Achim rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Ansprechpartner: Helga Kühn Rotkehlchenstr. 72 28832 Achim Telefon: [phone] Telefax: 04202-955210 Email: [e-mail] www.buergerstiftung-achim.de >> Weitere Details zu dieser Stiftung 

I need to have data that is "behind" the link - is there a way to do this with a simple and understandable parser that can be understood and written by a beginner !?

Answer 1

It seems to be written in the documentation :

 $html1->find('b[class=info]',0)->innertext; 

Answer 2

Your links provided do not work, I suggest you use your own PHP " DOM " extension instead of a "simple html parser", it will be much faster and easier; ) I viewed the page using googlecache, you can use something like: -

 $doc = new DOMDocument; @$doc->loadHTMLFile('...URL....'); // Using the @ operator to hide parse errors $contents = $doc->getElementById('content')->nodeValue; // Text contents of #content 

Answer 3

From what I can take a quick look, you need to go through the <dl> tags in #content, then dt and dd.

 foreach ($html->find('#content dl') as $item) { $info = $item->find('dd'); foreach ($info as $info_item) {..} } 

Using the simple_html_dom library

Answer 4

XPath makes scraping ridiculously easy and allows some changes to the HTML document to not affect you. For example, to display the names, you should use a query that looks like this:

 //div[id='content']/d1/dt 

A simple Google search will give you many lessons.

Answer 5

@zero: there is a good site to try to break the site using both php and python ... a pretty useful site at least for me: - http://scraperwiki.com/

Answer 6

I would use WWW: Mechanize

http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm