example_scraping_digg.php in simplehtmldom API 7

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simplehtmldom/example/scraping/example_scraping_digg.php

<?php

include_once '../../simple_html_dom.php';
function scraping_digg() {

  // create HTML DOM
  $html = file_get_html('http://digg.com/');

  // get news block
  foreach ($html
    ->find('div.news-summary') as $article) {

    // get title
    $item['title'] = trim($article
      ->find('h3', 0)->plaintext);

    // get details
    $item['details'] = trim($article
      ->find('p', 0)->plaintext);

    // get intro
    $item['diggs'] = trim($article
      ->find('li a strong', 0)->plaintext);
    $ret[] = $item;
  }

  // clean up memory
  $html
    ->clear();
  unset($html);
  return $ret;
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// test it!
// "http://digg.com" will check user_agent header...
ini_set('user_agent', 'My-Application/2.5');
$ret = scraping_digg();
foreach ($ret as $v) {
  echo $v['title'] . '<br>';
  echo '<ul>';
  echo '<li>' . $v['details'] . '</li>';
  echo '<li>Diggs: ' . $v['diggs'] . '</li>';
  echo '</ul>';
}

Functions

Name	Description
scraping_digg