Question

Overview: I’m trying to add an EventBrite event using the EventBrite API with nothing but the URL as an input.

For example, a user inputs [the url] and I should be able to pull the “eid” from [the url].

I know that the source of http://pitchevent-startups.eventbrite.com/ does this:
[script]
…
window.eid = “123456”;
…
[/script]
and I want to retrieve this “123456” value for my own purposes (adding the event to a list.)

How can I access this? Javascript preferred, but php will be OK too.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use PHP to get the eid, like this:

<?php
$url='http://pitchevent-startups.eventbrite.com/';
if (preg_match('/window\.eid\s*=\s*\"(\d*)\";/',file_get_contents($url),$match)){
    echo "eid: ".$match[1];
}
?>