Re: Re: Screen Scraping using PHP
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:14:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Screen Scraping using PHP | ||
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Richard Baskett wrote:
>
> I bet he means when you open up an URL and capture part of the page or the
> entire page and post it onto your own site. I've done that with weather.com
> where you capture just part of their webpage.. So basically if I wanted to
> know what the weather was like in Egypt, I would go to weather.com and find
> the URL that tells me, copy that, write a script that grabs that information
> from weather.com and then posts it on my site. Thus screen scraping...
>
> If that's not what he meant then I am in the dark also :) If so.. Then
> there you go!
Aaaaah... Page Pillaging ;)
Cheers,
Rob.
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