[Solved] not scraping website with PHP [closed]

Question

The reason why this isn’t working is because the actual website got a lot more between “Summary:” and the “<span class…”

What you could try (that seems to work) is to change it into the simpler form:

$contents=file_get_contents("http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/San-Francisco/forecasts/latest");

preg_match('/<span class="phrase">(.*?)<\/s/', $contents,$matches);
print_r($matches[0]);

This will pick out more matches, but since we’re only interested in the first we can just pick that one out from the array.

Accepted Answer

The reason why this isn’t working is because the actual website got a lot more between “Summary:” and the “<span class…”

What you could try (that seems to work) is to change it into the simpler form:

$contents=file_get_contents("http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/San-Francisco/forecasts/latest");

preg_match('/<span class="phrase">(.*?)<\/s/', $contents,$matches);
print_r($matches[0]);

This will pick out more matches, but since we’re only interested in the first we can just pick that one out from the array.