Grabbing info from other sites?

RegFee · 06-22-2005, 02:38 AM

Is there a way to grab info from another site with a code?

ie, if I was indexing 100 forums and wanted to order them by number of members, is there a way to "grab" the number after their "number of members:" text on their front page?

or should I be going about this another way?

Thanks,

deadserious · 06-22-2005, 03:34 AM

Yes there is a way to get content from other sites, but it would usually involve some type programming/scripting. With a little PHP or Perl code I'm sure you could do exactly what you're wanting.

Scott · 06-24-2005, 02:50 PM

To expand on what deadserious said, the easiest way would probably be PHP's explode function, unless you want to get into RegEx.

RegFee · 06-24-2005, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Scott

To expand on what deadserious said, the easiest way would probably be PHP's explode function, unless you want to get into RegEx.

Thanks for the link.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/100746-grabbing-info-from-other-sites.html
I have absolutely no knowledge of php, but I found a good tutorial site, so as soon as I get time, I'm learnin...

What I basically wanted to do is make a directory of forum sites that was sortable by number of members. Since most forum sites are vbulletin, does anyone know if there is a ?x= function that will return the amount of members a forum has? ie, what is the line in the code that prints the amount of members on to the html page? Maybe that will help...

Thanks again,

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deadserious Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,255	Yes there is a way to get content from other sites, but it would usually involve some type programming/scripting. With a little PHP or Perl code I'm sure you could do exactly what you're wanting.

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Scott Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: UK Posts: 3,547	To expand on what deadserious said, the easiest way would probably be PHP's explode function, unless you want to get into RegEx.

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