Hi everyone,
I try to write a simple web crawler. It has to do the following:
1) Open an URL and retrieve a HTML file.
2) Extract news headlines from the HTML file
3) Put the headlines into a RSS file.
For example, I want to go to this site and extract the headlines: www.unstrung.com/section.asp?section_id=86
The problem is I do not know howto extract a headline from a HTML
file.
I mean HTML is not structured as XML, so I do not really know to solve
this problem. I notice that PHP has URL Functions to deal with HTML
file. For example, you have get_meta_tags () to extract meta tag
content attributes from a HTML file. But then, extract meta tag is
easy. With headlines, I don't really know where the headlines are on
a HTML file. Would anyone give me inputs on this?
This is not an impossible problem. If you look at Google News
( http://news.google.com/), they crawl the web and sort the headlines
on their site.
Thanks,
P. Ho 3  3924 
On 3 Aug 2004 14:24:11 -0700, pe********@yaho o.com (Phong Ho) wrote: I try to write a simple web crawler. It has to do the following:
1) Open an URL and retrieve a HTML file.
2) Extract news headlines from the HTML file
3) Put the headlines into a RSS file.
For example, I want to go to this site and extract the headlines:
www.unstrung.com/section.asp?section_id=86
The problem is I do not know howto extract a headline from a HTML
file.
I mean HTML is not structured as XML, so I do not really know to solve
this problem. I notice that PHP has URL Functions to deal with HTML
file. For example, you have get_meta_tags () to extract meta tag
content attributes from a HTML file. But then, extract meta tag is
easy. With headlines, I don't really know where the headlines are on
a HTML file. Would anyone give me inputs on this?
This is not an impossible problem. If you look at Google News
(http://news.google.com/), they crawl the web and sort the headlines
on their site.
Whilst entirely possible in PHP, I'd use Perl for this, as there are many
extremely useful modules for this sort of thing. HTML::TableExtr act,
HTML::Parser, WWW::Mechanize to name a few.
But make sure you're not infringing on their copyright by redistributing the
extracted headlines.
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"Andy Hassall" wrote: On 3 Aug 2004 14:24:11 -0700, pe********@yaho o.com (Phong Ho) wrote:
I try to write a simple web crawler. It has to do the following:
1) Open an URL and retrieve a HTML file.
2) Extract news headlines from the HTML file
3) Put the headlines into a RSS file.
For example, I want to go to this site and extract the headlines:
www.unstrung.com/section.asp?section_id=86
The problem is I do not know howto extract a headline from a HTML
file.
I mean HTML is not structured as XML, so I do not really know to solvethis problem. I notice that PHP has URL Functions to deal with
HTMLfile. For example, you have get_meta_tags () to extract meta tag
content attributes from a HTML file. But then, extract meta tag
iseasy. With headlines, I don’t really know where the headlines
are ona HTML file. Would anyone give me inputs on this?
This is not an impossible problem. If you look at Google News
(http://news.google.com/), they crawl the web and sort the headlines
on their site.
Whilst entirely possible in PHP, I’d use Perl for this, as
there are many
extremely useful modules for this sort of thing.
HTML::TableExtr act, HTML::Parser, WWW::Mechanize to name a few.
But make sure you’re not infringing on their copyright by
redistributing the
extracted headlines.
Or do it the brute force way, using regular expressions. Just refer
to the manul for doing that. I don’t think php as well developed
modules for doing this (vs. Perl) but I could be wrong.
If you know regular expressions, this is an easy thing to do, by the
way.
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I do not have experience with Perl but I would like to ask a question
concerning Perl. I will use web hosting from a web hosting company,they
support Perl(CGI-BIN) but I won't have the root account. Do you need a
root account to install a Perl Module?
Also, anyone know if there is a sample in PHP to extract the headlines
from a HTML file on the internet?
Thanks
steve wrote: "Andy Hassall" wrote: > On 3 Aug 2004 14:24:11 -0700, pe********@yaho o.com (Phong Ho) wrote:
> > >I try to write a simple web crawler. It has to do the following:
> >1) Open an URL and retrieve a HTML file.
> >2) Extract news headlines from the HTML file
> >3) Put the headlines into a RSS file.
> >
> >For example, I want to go to this site and extract the headlines:
> >www.unstrung.com/section.asp?section_id=86
> >
> >The problem is I do not know howto extract a headline from a HTML
> >file.
> >I mean HTML is not structured as XML, so I do not really know to
> solve > >this problem. I notice that PHP has URL Functions to deal with HTML > >file. For example, you have get_meta_tags () to extract meta tag
> >content attributes from a HTML file. But then, extract meta tag is > >easy. With headlines, I don’t really know where the headlines
> are on > >a HTML file. Would anyone give me inputs on this?
> >
> >This is not an impossible problem. If you look at Google News
> >(http://news.google.com/), they crawl the web and sort the headlines
> >on their site.
>
> Whilst entirely possible in PHP, I’d use Perl for this, as
> there are many
> extremely useful modules for this sort of thing.
HTML::TableExtr act, > HTML::Parser, WWW::Mechanize to name a few.
>
> But make sure you’re not infringing on their copyright by
> redistributing the
> extracted headlines.
>
Or do it the brute force way, using regular expressions. Just refer
to the manul for doing that. I don’t think php as well developed
modules for doing this (vs. Perl) but I could be wrong.
If you know regular expressions, this is an easy thing to do, by the
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