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Jun 21, 2013 • parsing

Extract Urls from a remote webpage using PHP

Scraping data from website is extremely popular now a days. I have written a simple website parser class to grab all the urls from a website. Shared the class below for all to see and fun. We will use...

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Dec 11, 2012 • Ruby on Rails

Render HTML file in Rails using Nokogiri

You may need to render static HTML template file from a controller action without modifying anything in to file. And, may need to replace some content during render. A template may contain relative...

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Jun 13, 2008 • parsing

Extract href links from a website content using regular expression

One of my previous post I have discussed about to Grab website content using cURL. In this post I have given a sample code snippet to extract all hyper links from grabbed content using regular express...

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May 22, 2008 • parsing

Grab website content using cURL

A website content can grab easily using cURL by following the steps below: Enable cURLCopy following codes in to PHP fileChange target URLRun the page from webserver $target_url = "http://www.mors...

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