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How to implement a web scraper in PHP?
How to parse and process HTML with PHP?

I need to crawl through a page and get the contents of a particular div. I have php and javascript as my two main options. How can it be done?

Answer 1

This is quite a basic method to do it PHP and it returns the content in plain text. However you might consider revising the regex for your particular need.

<?php
  $link = file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com");
  $file = strip_tags($link, "<div>");
  preg_match_all("/<div/>(?:[^<]*)<\/div>/is", $file, $content);
  print_r($content); 
?>