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Scraping Test2

Hi folks, I need to be able to retrieve the contents of a site I intend to publish in a different domain and I would like to test everything to see how I would go about doing it. What I need is to retrieve the contents of a single "div" by its "id" and depending on the amount of values in a "select" scrape the news published by the same author in a single output. So if there is several stories like on the example bellow it would retrieve all the content on the first story and afterwards would move on to the next article within the "select" and it would add the second article bellow the forst one.

Any help would be much appreciated.

<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
</head>
<body>
	<form action="story.php?storyNumber=storyNumber.value">
		<select id="storyNumber" name="storyNumber" title="Story Navigation">
		    <option selected="" value="1"></option>
		    <option value="2"></option>
		    <option value="3"></option>
		    <option value="4"></option>
		    <option value="5"></option>
		    <option value="6"></option>
		    <option value="7"></option>
		    <option value="8"></option>
		    <option value="9"></option>
		    <option value="10"></option>
		    <option value="11"></option>
		    <option value="12"></option>
		    <option value="13"></option>
		    <option value="14"></option>
		    <option value="15"></option>
		    <option value="16"></option>
		    <option value="17"></option>
		    <option value="18"></option>
		    <option value="19"></option>
		    <option value="20"></option>
		</select>
	</form>
	<div id="div1">
		ESPN.com is an online platform for multiple sports news, statistics, team information, and player information. ESPN.com offers sports scores, standings, and other statistics for a variety of sports...
	</div>
</body>
</html>

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