Comments on: WP Web Scraper

By: Andy McDonald

Andy McDonald — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:53:35 +0000

Hello. I recently upgraded to version 2 and the app has stopped working on my site. are you able to help? [wpws url="http://www.poultonprimaryleague.org.uk/leagues.asp" selector="#table2:eq(2)" urldecode="0" cache="30" error="1" timeout="5" output="html" htmldecode="windows-1252"] thanks

By: Plugins in Wordpress | Maris Svirksts

Plugins in Wordpress | Maris Svirksts — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:34:10 +0000

[...] or some such software, very good and descriptive software for collection your reader stats.WP Web ScrapperWhile this plugin can easily be used for nefarious needs (getting content from other sites, [...]

By: alamgir

alamgir — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:24:13 +0000

Dear Akshay, how can i apply different basehref for different link dynamically?

By: Akshay

Akshay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:33:45 +0000

Yes, CSS can be applied to the scraped HTML. You will have to include the CSS classes in the style.css file of your theme or directly embed it in your theme’s header.php

By: Akshay

Akshay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:31:41 +0000

The plugin works just fine on WP 2.8.6. In fact, webdlabs.com also currently runs on 2.8.6 and this page has a live sample of the scraper (displying the number of downloads)

By: Andrew Wilshire

Andrew Wilshire — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:53:32 +0000

Hey Akshay,

The feedback on your plugin is really good but unfortunately I can’t get it to run with WP 2.8.6

I was wondering if you have any plans to release a version compatible with WordPress 2.8.6 ??

Many thanks,
Andrew.

By: alamgir

alamgir — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:30:28 +0000

can i apply css into scripted document

By: Akshay

Akshay — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:31:47 +0000

For use within the theme you need to use it as a php function… something like this…

< ?php echo wpws_get_content($url, $postargs, $selector, $clear, $replace, $replace_text, $basehref, $output, $cache, $agent, $timeout, $error)?>

By: GOY

GOY — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:04:39 +0000

Hey Akshay

Wonder if you could help me?

I have it working within posts and pages, but I want to bring in a header from a sister site into the Wordpress template itself.

The example code you gave is:

The code that works in the post is:

[wpws url="http://www.domain.com" selector="#header" output="html"]

So how do I write the PHP code in the header.php file? Everything I try shows a blank page…

I’m sure I’m not the only non coder who may run into this. Looks like a great plugin, all it needs is an example for adding code to the template as well.

Your help is appreciated – thanks

By: GOY

GOY — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:10:59 +0000

Hey I can fix this for you Justyn

Just open up youR .htaccess file and add

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

This changes the version to 5

It now works for me! – GOOD LUCK