Grabbing new content.. anyone?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by terryuk, Jun 19, 2006.

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    Does anyone know how it's possible to make a cron to grab new content (videos/pictures) from a desired website. I have no idea where to start when thinking about this script, so help will be appreciated.

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    Curl is your friend her and is a very powerfully ally. I have written a very small test program that draggs certain posts from a forum then displays them on a web page, all using curl
     
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    Ok cool, i'll have to read up on that :) cheers
     
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    jestep Prominent Member

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    If the content is available in RSS, or an XML feed format, you can very easily use an RSS parser to automatically update your website when the content is updated. I have used magpie RSS and zfeeder on about 5 websites for that exact purpose.
     
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    Well, i can find some websites which use RSS where i can get this content, but i'd like to actually grab the files, so would it be hard finding out file paths, category etc..
     
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