How to pull information off of a webpage [solved] thanks
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:33 pm
I'm currently working on a project (well.. starting one) that will index all of the players of a certain MMORPG game. Essentially it will give stats as to how many characters are active/inactive how many adventurers how many artisans (and a bunch of other things that non gamers dont have interest in)
The only way i've found to actually pull this information is from there website which allows you to do a search by server and so forth.
Is it possable to write a PHP script that will run a specified search (or two or three) collect the information and uplaod it into a MySQL database, so that i can parse the information?
I've spent about 2 hours trolling these forums as i'm sure i've seen this done before (about 6 months ago) but cannot find it to save my life.
If some one could even tell me what function or what it is commonly reffered to, so i can have somewhere to search on? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
The only way i've found to actually pull this information is from there website which allows you to do a search by server and so forth.
Is it possable to write a PHP script that will run a specified search (or two or three) collect the information and uplaod it into a MySQL database, so that i can parse the information?
I've spent about 2 hours trolling these forums as i'm sure i've seen this done before (about 6 months ago) but cannot find it to save my life.
If some one could even tell me what function or what it is commonly reffered to, so i can have somewhere to search on? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.