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Extracting html data from an external website
Hi!
I’m building a website for my football team, and I’d like to automatically sync the current rankings with the official web source (national football association) – having to insert them manually each week is a lot of work, and unfortunately they haven’t yet implemented a nice RSS feed which I could then use as a source.
I was wondering if it is somehow possible to extract/parse the contents of the external documents’ HTML table to use the contents on my own site. Maybe with a server-side or client-side script or a combination of both? I wouldn’t know where to start.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Greetings, Jan
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Re: Extracting html data from an external website
jan, do a Google search for screen scrapers and see which one would work for you.
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Re: Extracting html data from an external website
Thanks very much Bert, I haven’t tried it yet but it looks like a solution for me!
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