[wp-hackers] is there a plug in that does browser's text view

[Haluk Karamete]

Thank you. These are the stuff that makes you want to be a programmer
right?
I cannot try it now but for sure in the next 2 days.

But for the time being, why did you comment this;

   //$html = new simple_html_dom();


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Josh Keen <josh.keen.01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> try this:
> http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/index.htm
>
> here's an example snippet that gives you the excerpts for a search on Julio
> Iglesias:
>
> <?php
>
>  //create and load the HTML
>    include('../simple_html_dom.php');
>    //$html = new simple_html_dom();
>    $html = file_get_html('https://www.google.com/search?q=julio+iglesias'
> );
>           //echo '$html: '.$html;
>     foreach($html->find('div.s') as $element)
>       //echo $element->text . '<br>';
>      echo 'excerpt: ' . $element->plaintext . '<br /><br /><br />';
> ?>
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Is there a plug in ( or a php snippet you know of ) that extracts the
> text
> > ( filtering down the HTML ) out of a url passed to it?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > Check this link out
> >
> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/04/2012410203742758407.html
> >
> > In its page body, it's got the following text;
> >
> > "Kofi Annan has urged the UN Security Council to help prevent the
> collapse
> > of his efforts ..... "
> >
> > Which is the same text that you see when you google that article
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=UN+urged+to+push+for+Syria+ceasefire
> >
> > The plan is that I write a script, that submits to google, gets into
> google
> > html, parses the 1st link and gets that 55 word description out of it and
> > then uses that extraction as a beginning delimiter in getting the 500
> > characters from the destination article.  I need that plug in and PHP
> code
> > so that I can work with a cleaner/easier  text to deal with.
> >
> > Ofcourse, I can get into the PHP's striptags function and create that
> > snippet myself (but before I get my hands dirty with coding), I thought I
> > double check with you guys.. maybe you guys know of a plug in - or
> suggest
> > a better way.  I thought of getting to the RSS text but I cannot find an
> > RSS content search using google.
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