using php , how can we collect the text data of a webpage ? I don't have access to the server of the webpage of which I want to copy.
Something like this PHP: function getTitle($url) { $doc = new DOMDocument; // Create a new DOMDocument object in $doc $doc->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url)); // Load the contents of our desired website into $doc $a = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title"); // Get all of the 'a' XHTML tags and there attributes and store in array $a return $a->item(0)->nodeValue;} It will get the title of the page
Code: $url="http://www.go4expert.com"; $doc = new DOMDocument; // Create a new DOMDocument object in $doc $doc->loadHTML(file_get_contents($url)); // Load the contents of our desired website into $doc $a = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title"); // Get all of the 'a' XHTML tags and there attributes and store in array $a echo $a->item(0)->nodeValue; IT didn't worked for me. what is the error here?
Use the repro command or script SS_WebPageToText in biterscripting (biterscripting.com for free download). 1. To copy the web page as it is to a local file, use the following command. repro "URL" > file.txt URL must begin with an http : / / . 2. To extract only the plain text from the web page and store it to a local file, script SS_WebPageToText.txt page("URL") > file.txt This script is available at biterscripting.com / WW_WebPageToText.html . Randi
Shabbir: I had to add spaces in the URLs, otherwise, I guess this site does not allow Links. Just remove the spaces so you can access the pages. In general all these pages are at biterscripting . com . Randi
Shabbir: Oops, my mistake. The correct URL for the script SS_WebPageToText is (with spaces inserted) biterscripting.com / SS_WebPageToText.html Randi (I had typed WW instead of SS.)
Why don't you use a website copier,so you can browse offline. Google for webripper/httrack/webcow/ There's plenty out there,also you can specif what files you want to download {txt,php,html ect}
Bro ! We are trying to download the content of the page, not the page itself. So these tools are not of use in this case. It's like copying text data of one file and pasting it into another file.
