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Searching a search ????!!!

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:46 am
by kleptomania
OK,

I want to be able to allow a user to enter a variable into my site and then my site go off and search several others for the result. ie

enter a dvd name

my site goes to play.com, cd-wow.com, tesco.com etc etc kinda like kellkoo and pricerunner do. Is their a script for this or will i require knowledge of the targets coding and databases?

Cheers

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:09 pm
by feyd
all you really need is to fake a user on their site searching for something, pull the results and reformat all the data. First thing I'd do is analyze their search <form> they supply in their html. Then use [php_man]cURL[/php_man] to fake a browser, and finally a bunch of regex to filter and convert their content into the local display format.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:42 pm
by McGruff
Used to manage an online shop where we provided a product list file for download for price comparison sites: your target sites might have something similar which you can access?