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How to create a simple screen scraper in PHP

I am trying to create a simple screen scraper that gets me the price of a specific item. Here is an example of a product I want to get the price from:

https://www.flanco.ro/telefon-mobil-apple-iphone-14-5g-128gb-purple.html

This is the portion of the html code I am interested in:
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I want to get the ‘4699’ thing.

Here is what I have been trying to do but it does not seem to work:

$html = file_get_contents("https://www.flanco.ro/telefon-mobil-apple-iphone-14-5g-128gb-purple.html");
$doc = new DomDocument();
$doc->loadHtml($html);
$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);
//Now query the document:
foreach ($xpath->query('/<span class="price">[0-9]*\.[0-9]+/i') as $node) {
    echo $node, "n";
}
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  1. 0

    Since there are a few price classes on the page. I would specifically target the pricesPrp class.

    Also on your foreach you are trying to convert a DOMElement object into a string which wouldn’t work

    Update your xpath query as such :

    $query = $xpath->query('//div[@class="pricesPrp"]//span[@class="special-price"]//span[@class="price"]');

    If you want to see the different nodes:

    echo '<pre>';
foreach ($query as $node) {
    var_dump($node);
}

    And if you want to get that specific price :

    $price = $query->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo $price;
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  2. 0

    You could just use standard PHP string functions to get the price out of the $html:

    $url   = "https://www.flanco.ro/telefon-mobil-apple-iphone-14-5g-128gb-purple.html";
$html  = file_get_contents($url);
$seek  = '<span class="special-price"><span class="price">';
$end   = strpos($html, $seek) + strlen($seek);
$price = substr($html, $end, strpos($html, ',', $end) - $end);

    Or something similar. This is all the code you need. This code returns:

    4.699

    My point is: In this particular case you don’t need to parse the DOM and use a regular expression to get that single price.

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  3. 0 
    $html = file_get_contents('PASTE_URL');

$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTML(mb_convert_encoding($html, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8"));    
@$selector = new DOMXPath($doc);

$result = $selector->query('//span[@class="price"]');
foreach($result as $node) {
    echo $node->nodeValue;
}
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