How to scrape this data?

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    I want to, on my website, display the number of followers that Ashton Kutcher has on Twitter.

    The page I want to scrape the info from is: http://twitter.com/users/show/aplusk.xml

    The specific piece of information that I want to scrape from that page is: <followers_count>[this number]</followers_count>

    Could someone provide me the code for this? I don't think it's very difficult, since I'm just looking to scrape everything from "<followers_count>" to "</followers_count>".

    Thanks a lot for any help!
     
    Egnited, Feb 25, 2010 IP
  2. danx10

    danx10 Peon

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    <?php

preg_match("/<followers_count>([0-9]*)<\/followers_count>/", file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/users/show/aplusk.xml"), $matches);

echo $matches[1];

?>
    PHP:
    :)
     
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  3. Egnited

    Egnited Well-Known Member

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    You're awesome! Thanks!

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    Egnited, Feb 25, 2010 IP