hm... parsing?

[Trki]

Hi guys :/ I have a rly big problem for me... My classmate asked me if i could help him with one thing on his dad's website. I of course say what u need. And for my suprise i dont know help ... i wasn't expecting this. He wants have the NEWS from http://www.kmss.sk/ website on his website. This website when i am good looking doesnt have a XML RSS.... So. .. what now? :P i was googling all of the day but nothing. I just finded something like parsing? or something like that but ... can somebody send me a great tut for it or ... i dont know something what would help me. I think .. maybe exists something like ... library ? for it, which will parse all the info what i will want and then, when i will have the data in my array i have win ... ah.

[tracknut]

Firstly you might check to see that their usage agreement on the web site allows you to copy the information. By default, it's copyrighted, so unless they say "feel free to copy this", you can't. That might get you off the hook on having to do it

Secondly, if you do have permission, it's called "screen scraping", if you're googling it. Essentially you'd need to CURL the web page over, and parse through it looking for the news of interest. Not particularly fun stuff, and of course if they change the page, your site is likely to break.

Dave

[Trki]

Originally Posted by tracknut

Firstly you might check to see that their usage agreement on the web site allows you to copy the information. By default, it's copyrighted, so unless they say "feel free to copy this", you can't. That might get you off the hook on having to do it

Secondly, if you do have permission, it's called "screen scraping", if you're googling it. Essentially you'd need to CURL the web page over, and parse through it looking for the news of interest. Not particularly fun stuff, and of course if they change the page, your site is likely to break.

Dave

hm... ok great link i think i was reading this article in past. But ... one problem ...i parsed the text... but when i want take image which is looking like this-> the source code -> <img src="~/media/SK/Navigation/Main-navigation/Model-Visuals/carPreview_Picanto_2011.jpg?h=153&w=250" alt="" width="250" height="153"/>
</a> ??? :P can i somehow?

When it would be normal link i would just add the domain name before but now when i am trying this:

http://www.kmss.sk/media/SK/Navigati...pg?h=153&w=250

link to the browser it will not find the file

Any ideas how to take a image?

[Arbitrator]

Originally Posted by Trki

When it would be normal link i would just add the domain name before but now when i am trying this:

http://www.kmss.sk/media/SK/Navigati...pg?h=153&w=250


link to the browser it will not find the file

You omitted a reference to the directory "~" from the URL.

[Trki]

Originally Posted by Arbitrator

You omitted a reference to the directory "~" from the URL.

hm... sorry? :P didnt understand how did you mean ? :P but solved