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Get the main body text from site/s

Sun, 12/20/2009 - 11:00 — russellharrower

Hi just wondering, does anyone know how to tell PHP to get the text from a story.

I am sure as we all know a web developer can place text anywhere on the page, but I want to only get the area that has the most text.

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Sun, 12/20/2009 - 12:24 — dmorison

Hi Russell, There is no easy

Hi Russell,

There is no easy way to do this i'm afraid.

What may be possible if the page is valid XHTML is to use Magic Parser to read the entire document at the HTML/BODY/ and then scan the response for the longest element; for example:

<?php
  require("MagicParser.php");
  function myRecordHandler($record)
  {
    global $story;
    $longest = 0;
    foreach($record as $k => $v)
    {
      if (strlen($v) > $longest)
      {
        $story = $v;
        $longest = strlen($story);
      }
    }
  }
  $url = "http://www.example.com/";
  MagicParser_parse($url,"myRecordHandler","xml|HTML/BODY/");
  print $story;
?>