How to retrieve data from parse?

How to parse data from another website?

• i have a project in which i want to access the data of any other website and use it in my website. i want to parse the data from that website. the owner of provider site doesnt need to know about this since i want to access the publically available data. how do i do it? plz help...

• Answer:

  It depends on the website. If it uses a CMS like WordPress, you can access the data in XML format via an XMP-RPC. If it's a popular website like Wikipedia or Flickr, it may well have an API which can return the data for you in one of several formats (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php ). XML and other formatted data can be easily parsed by PHP etc. If none of those options are available, you can try writing a function to parse the data yourself. You can use the PHP DOM (http://docs.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php ) extension to parse an HTML document into an object, after which the data can be accessed in a similar way to the Javascript document object. Be aware that with this method your script would be likely to break if the layout of the page you were accessing changed. To get the data in the first place you can use CURL, which is standard in most PHP builds. T.