Question

Im writing a program to pull the meta info from websites.

I need to write some regex to pull the text in the between the content tags.

$find = "<meta\s+name=['\"]??keywords['\"]??\s+content=['\"]??(.+)['\"]??\s*\/?>";

This works ok for meta keywords written like so:

<meta name="keywords" content="keyword, keyword, keyword" /> or like so
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword, keyword, keyword">

BuT I would like to flip it round so it can find the text inbetween the content tags in this format:

<meta content="keyword, keyword, keyword" name="keywords" /> or like so
<meta content="keyword, keyword, keyword" name="keywords" >

Anyone help? Cheers

Answer 1

For this purpose you could also use get_meta_tags() – a builtin PHP function which extracts <meta> tag attributes from websites (or already downloaded files):

$tags = get_meta_tags('http://www.example.com/');
print_r($tags);