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Grabbing content (aka. page scraping) from a website

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06-19-2011, 10:12 PM

Wildhoney

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Thank you. In extension to this, I see many people use regular expressions to scrape content from websites, when really XPath is the way to be heading. Especially since DOMDocument provides a DOMXPath class.

As always, W3Schools covers XPath nicely.