Re: Getting data from a web page

On Jan 30, 12:34 pm, "laredotorn...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<laredotorn...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I'm using php 4.4.4. What I want to do is hopefully simple. If I
type this URL into my browser:

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=980+PEMART+AVE+PEEKSKILL,+NY+10566&;...

I get a simple comma-delimited list of data. What I would like to do
is in my PHP script, request this URL and then put the return values
into an array. How do I do this?

Thanks, - Dave

You will want to read up on the CURL library and the term scrape or
google for curl and scrape, that should give you hits on what you want
to do.

Scrape sounds kinda bad and if you don't have permission to read
someones data off a page you could get in trouble. Google has
information aout what you can collect from their pages and for what
purpose.
.

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