Parsing URL contents

[Tpjohns]

I want to scrape the contents of a table at a specific URL. I do a get file contents on the URL. The table has 9 columns of which I only want to display 5. I am assuming I need PHP, but am not exactly comfortable with the parsing piece.Does anyone have an example of identifying the HTML elements to echo?

[birbal]

D0M can parse remote file. If remote file access is disabled by your host you can use curl to fetch the page and use its content in DOM. Don is easier when you are handling html and xmlBe aware that different host has different scraping policy. Scraper should obey the robot.txt file (proper way of using). If their is an api for 3rd party site better use it. For resource abuse 3rd party site could block your ip