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screen scraping search results

using http post?

         

partha

9:43 pm on Apr 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I'm using file_get_contents() to screen scrape right now, but I have a problem where I need to scrape the results of a search, where the search attributes DO NOT appear in the URL.

I want to scrape the results of this search page. Any ideas how?

[edited by: jatar_k at 9:53 pm (utc) on April 3, 2005]
[edit reason] removed url [/edit]

killroy

10:08 pm on Apr 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Use sockets to send the POST info.

SN

partha

10:15 pm on Apr 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



how does that work in PHP? could you show me some sample code perhaps?