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Asked: 2026-05-20T22:12:20+00:00

I am trying to get the text from a page scrape using xpath, now

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I am trying to get the text from a page scrape using xpath, now I keep getting an error returned and no idea why! – bare in mind I am a very new php user, this is for a university project that I’ve taken on and its prooving to be very challenging 😛 but hey it should be.

Heres the code, 

<?php

$html = file_get_contents('http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Apple-iPod-touch-Generation/dp/B0040GIZTI/ref=br_lf_m_1000333483_1_1_img?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&pf_rd_p=229345967&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000333483&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1ZW9HJW2KN2C2MTRJH60');

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);

$in_stock = $xpath->query("/html/body/div[@id='divsinglecolumnminwidth']/form[@id='handleBuy']/table[3]/tbody/tr[3]/td/div/span");



?>

I get the following error…

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML()
[domdocument.loadhtml]: Unexpected end
tag : head in Entity, line: 2664 in
C:\xampp\htdocs\scraping\domxpath.php
on line 19

About a hundred times!

Any help really appreciated! , it must be really easy to fix 😛

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  1. Editorial Team
    $xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);

$expr = "/html/body/div[@id='divsinglecolumnminwidth']/form[@id='handleBuy']/table[3]/tr[3]/td/div/span";
$nodes = $xpath->query($expr); // returns DOMNodeList object
// you can check length property i.e. $nodes->length
echo $nodes->item(0)->nodeValue; // get first DOMNode object and its value

    Also you need to add stametent for suppressing errors. I think that for performance reasons it’s better to use absolute XPath expression, but relative //form[@id=’handleBuy’]/table[3]/tr[3]/td/div/span works as well and is more elastic.

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