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Asked: 2026-05-20T16:26:33+00:00

I need to scrape the number 622104 from this html How can I get

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I need to scrape the number 622104 from this html

How can I get the number?

<div class="numbersBackground">
        <div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl00_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>6</span></div>
    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl01_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>2</span></div>
    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl02_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>2</span></div>
    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl03_commaPanel" class="comma">

    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl04_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>1</span></div>
    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl05_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>0</span></div>
    </div><div id="ctl00_mainContent_playersOnlineNumberRepeater_ctl06_numberPanel" class="number">
        <div class="numberWrapper"><span>4</span></div>
    </div>
</div>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Using the DOMDocument class to parse the HTML string, thanks to its loadHTML method, you could use an XPath query (using the DOMXpath class) to find all <div> tag with a class="numberWrapper" attribute.

    Then, iterate over those, concatenating their content to a variable — which, at the end of the loop, will contain your number.

    For example, you could have this kind of code :

    $str = <<<HTML
... HERE YOUR HTML ...
HTML;

$number = '';

$dom = new DOMDocument();
if ($dom->loadHTML($str)) {
    $xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
    $results = $xpath->query('//div[@class="numberWrapper"]');
    foreach ($results as $div) {
        $number .= $div->nodeValue;
    }
}

var_dump($number);

    And, as output, you’d get :

    string '622104' (length=6)

    You could also use the following XPath query, to make sure you’re only working with the <span> tags :

    $results = $xpath->query('//div[@class="numberWrapper"]/span');

    Here, as the <div>s only contain the <span>, the result will be the same — but it might change, in other situations.

    Of course (just to make sure it’s said) : Regular Expressions are not the right way to extract informations from an HTML string.

    Edit after the comment :

    If there are other <div>s you don’t want to take into account, you’ll have to find another XPath query — that matches what you want to extract.

    For example, maybe something like this would do the trick :

    $results = $xpath->query('//div[@class="numbersBackground"]//div[@class="numberWrapper"]/span');

    Of course, up to you to find out exactly what matches your the structure of your HTML document.

    If you want to download the HTML, you have two solutions :

    As a sidenote, if you get warnings before your HTML is not valid, you’ll want to take a look at the libxml_use_internal_errors() function 😉

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