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The problem with this page is that it is not proper xml. As I see it you have to options try to xml/xpath or use regexp.<br />
I would suggest xml because the data makes more sense in a xml why. To do an xpath or xslt in this page you should first convert this page into proper xhtml or xml. Try to load the page into a DomDocument with the loadHTML() function. If this works you should be able to xpath or xslt the data to get the links. Just ask if you have any issues.<br />

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The problem with this page is that it is not proper xml. As I see it you have to options try to xml/xpath or use regexp.
I would suggest xml because the data makes more sense in a xml why. To do an xpath or xslt in this page you should first convert this page into proper xhtml or xml. Try to load the page into a DomDocument with the loadHTML() function. If this works you should be able to xpath or xslt the data to get the links. Just ask if you have any issues.


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Thanks for you help guys.... I used Ray's code (slightly modified to output only links).
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Thanks for you help guys.... I used Ray's code (slightly modified to output only links).

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Hi,<br />
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I am looking for some assistance to scrap the links using php (curl +xpath) from below location. I tried the xpath way using php but I am unsuccessful. If xpath cannot be used, any other php mechanism is also acceptable.<br />
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Input Link: <a href="http://network.nighi.com/video?page=2" rel="ugc">http://network.nighi.com/video?page=2</a><br />
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output: 20 links (e.g. <a href="http://network.nighi.com/video/video/show?id=549954%3AVideo%3A140678" rel="ugc">http://network.nighi.com/video/video/show?id=549954%3AVideo%3A140678</a>)
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Hi,

I am looking for some assistance to scrap the links using php (curl +xpath) from below location. I tried the xpath way using php but I am unsuccessful. If xpath cannot be used, any other php mechanism is also acceptable.

Input Link: http://network.nighi.com/video?page=2

output: 20 links (e.g. http://network.nighi.com/video/video/show?id=549954%3AVideo%3A140678)

Scraping using PHP and xpath

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).

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