I'm looking to build a PHP script that parses HTML for particular tags. I've been using this code block, adapted from this tutorial:
<?php
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com');
$regex = '/<title>(.+?)</';
preg_match($regex,$data,$match);
var_dump($match);
echo $match[1];
?>
The script works with some websites (like google, above), but when I try it with other websites (like, say, freshdirect), I get this error:
"Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.freshdirect.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!"
I've seen a bunch of great suggestions on StackOverflow, for example to enable extension=php_openssl.dll
in php.ini. But (1) my version of php.ini didn't have extension=php_openssl.dll
in it, and (2) when I added it to the extensions section and restarted the WAMP server, per this thread, still no success.
Would someone mind pointing me in the right direction? Thank you very much!
$html = file_get_html('http://google.com/');
$title = $html->find('title')->innertext;
Or if you prefer with preg_match and you should be really using cURL instead of fgc...
function curl($url){
$headers[] = "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";
$headers[] = "Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";
$headers[] = "Accept-Language:en-us,en;q=0.5";
$headers[] = "Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate";
$headers[] = "Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$headers[] = "Keep-Alive:115";
$headers[] = "Connection:keep-alive";
$headers[] = "Cache-Control:max-age=0";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$data = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $data;
}
$data = curl('http://www.google.com');
$regex = '#<title>(.*?)</title>#mis';
preg_match($regex,$data,$match);
var_dump($match);
echo $match[1];
It just requires a user-agent ("any" really, any string suffices):
file_get_contents("http://www.freshdirect.com",false,stream_context_create(
array("http" => array("user_agent" => "any"))
));
See more options.
Of course, you can set user_agent
in your ini:
ini_set("user_agent","any");
echo file_get_contents("http://www.freshdirect.com");
... but I prefer to be explicit for the next programmer working on it.
Another option: Some hosts disable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION
so recursive is what you want, also will log into a text file any errors. Also a simple example of how to use DOMDocument()
to extract the content, obviously its not extensive but something you could build appon.
<?php
function file_get_site($url){
(function_exists('curl_init')) ? '' : die('cURL Must be installed. Ask your host to enable it or uncomment extension=php_curl.dll in php.ini');
$curl = curl_init();
$header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: ";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 Firefox/5.0');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
$html = curl_exec($curl);
$status = curl_getinfo($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if($status['http_code']!=200){
if($status['http_code'] == 301 || $status['http_code'] == 302) {
list($header) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $html, 2);
$matches = array();
preg_match("/(Location:|URI:)[^(\n)]*/", $header, $matches);
$url = trim(str_replace($matches[1],"",$matches[0]));
$url_parsed = parse_url($url);
return (isset($url_parsed))? file_get_site($url):'';
}
$oline='';
foreach($status as $key=>$eline){$oline.='['.$key.']'.$eline.' ';}
$line =$oline." \r\n ".$url."\r\n-----------------\r\n";
$handle = @fopen('./curl.error.log', 'a');
fwrite($handle, $line);
return FALSE;
}
return $html;
}
function get_content_tags($source,$tag,$id=null,$value=null){
$xml = new DOMDocument();
@$xml->loadHTML($source);
foreach($xml->getElementsByTagName($tag) as $tags) {
if($id!=null){
if($tags->getAttribute($id)==$value){
return $tags->getAttribute('content');
}
}
return $tags->nodeValue;
}
}
$source = file_get_site('http://www.freshdirect.com/about/index.jsp');
echo get_content_tags($source,'title'); //FreshDirect
echo get_content_tags($source,'meta','name','description'); //Online grocer providing high quality fresh......
?>