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How to scrape specific data from scrape with simple html dom parser

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I am trying to scrape the datas from a webpage, but I get need to get all the data in this link . 





include 'simple_html_dom.php';

$html1 = file_get_html('http://www.aktive-buergerschaft.de/buergerstiftungen/unsere_leistungen/buergerstiftungsfinder');



$info1 = $html1->find('b[class=[what to enter herer ]',0);


I need to get all the data out of this site . 





Bürgerstiftung Lebensraum Aachen

    rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts

    Ansprechpartner: Hubert Schramm

    Alexanderstr. 69/ 71

    52062 Aachen

    Telefon: 0241 - 4500130

    Telefax: 0241 - 4500131

    Email: info@buergerstiftung-aachen.de

    www.buergerstiftung-aachen.de

    >> Weitere Details zu dieser Stiftung



Bürgerstiftung Achim

    rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts

    Ansprechpartner: Helga Kühn

    Rotkehlchenstr. 72

    28832 Achim

    Telefon: 04202-84981

    Telefax: 04202-955210

    Email: info@buergerstiftung-achim.de

    www.buergerstiftung-achim.de

    >> Weitere Details zu dieser Stiftung


I need to have the data that are "behind" the link - is there any way to do this with a easy and understandable parser - one that can be understood and written by a newbie!?


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  1. UserMay 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Seems to be written in the documentation:

    $html1->find('b[class=info]',0)->innertext;

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  2. UserMay 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    Your provided links are down,
    I will suggest you to use the native PHP "DOM" Extension instead of "simple html parser", it will be much faster and easier ;)
    I had a look at the page using googlecache, you can use something like:-

    $doc = new DOMDocument;
    @$doc->loadHTMLFile('...URL....'); // Using the @ operator to hide parse errors
    $contents = $doc->getElementById('content')->nodeValue; // Text contents of #content

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  3. UserMay 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    From what i can quickly glance you need to loop through the <dl> tags in #content, then the dt and dd.

    foreach ($html->find('#content dl') as $item) {
    $info = $item->find('dd');
    foreach ($info as $info_item) {..}
    }


    Using the simple_html_dom library

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  4. UserMay 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    XPath makes scraping ridiculously easy, and allows for some changes in the HTML document to not affect you. For example, to pull out the names, you'd use a query that looks like:

    //div[id='content']/d1/dt


    A simple Google search will give you plenty of tutorials

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  5. UserMay 15, 2012 at 9:26 AM

    @zero: there is good site to try out scrapping a site using both php and python...pretty helpful site atleast to me:-
    http://scraperwiki.com/

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