[CivicAccess-discuss] Scraping election results..

[Russell McOrmond]

Robin Millette wrote:
> I didn't include URLs, perhaps I should have...

   Thanks for the sample -- I've not seen SimpleXMLElement used before.

Here is the foreach() loop, grabbing the URL's.

foreach ($z as $a) {
         $data = array();
         $data[] = trim((string)$a->td[0], "\n");
         $data[] = trim((string)$a->td[1]->a, "\n");
         $temp=($a->td[1]->a->attributes());
         $data[] = trim($temp['href']);
         $data[] = trim((string)$a->td[2]->a, "\n");
         $temp=($a->td[2]->a->attributes());
         $data[] = trim($temp['href']);
         $data[] = trim((string)$a->td[3], "\n");
         $data[] = trim((string)$a->td[4], "\n");

     $data2 = array_map('quotes', $data);
     echo join(',', $data2) . "\n";

}


   Enough playing around for today.  What I'm wanting to do is have 
something handy which I can point at pages like this that will 
automatically grab the pages at the URL's and parse them as well to add 
data like the EDID, email, phone, website information for MPs.

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