mari
October 20, 2010, 2:45pm
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Hi Guys,
i need to pull some content in from another website, i do not own the other website.
i want to include a specific part of content from the website, it is a news section, how do i target that specific section?
dsmIT
October 20, 2010, 7:00pm
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If RSS is not an option, try cURL to fetch the content for you. But, please make sure the owner of the website agrees to you copying “their” data before doing such things.
Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local databas Sc...
It explains techniques as well as legal issues.
Does the site in question have a feed you can consume?
