read a web page and then display

[petermichaux]

Hi,

I'd like to read a webpage, the parse it and display a small part of
it. Here is what I've tired. It isn't working. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Peter

<?php

$handle = fopen("http://www.yahoo.com/", "r");

$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));

echo $contents;

?>

[Andy Hassall]

On 30 Aug 2005 12:53:06 -0700, pe**********@yahoo.com wrote:

I'd like to read a webpage, the parse it and display a small part of
it. Here is what I've tired. It isn't working.
In what way is it not working? What does it do?
$handle = fopen("http://www.yahoo.com/", "r");

$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));

What's in $filename?

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[petermichaux]

Oops. This is getting closer to working

<?php

$filename = "http://babelfish.altavista.com/";

$handle = fopen($filename, "r");

$contents = fread($handle, 100000000);
fclose($handle);

echo $contents;

?>

[Andy Hassall]

On 30 Aug 2005 14:11:32 -0700, pe**********@yahoo.com wrote:

Oops. This is getting closer to working
You didn't say how the previous one was "not working". How is this one closer?
What does it do?
$filename = "http://babelfish.altavista.com/";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, 100000000);

Read http://uk2.php.net/fread

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http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool

[juglesh]

It may be that yahoo and altavista dont like you reading their pages
that way. I wrote a script that would do a site specific search on
google for every website in my favorites. It works once and a while,
but mostly, i get
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.google.com/search-blahblahblah):
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

I havent gotten around to trying:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/

--
juglesh

[petermichaux]

Hi juglesh,

Snoopy was exactly the kind of thing I was after. Thanks!!!

Peter