I want to read some data of the latest video on a youtube channel.
So i load the feed with simplexml_load_file and after that I use XPath for navigate to nodes.
$xmlFeed = simplexml_load_file("https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCo0bvu1jzU4WpHS3FglLU8g");
echo $xmlFeed->xpath("//entry[1]/title")[0];
echo $xmlFeed->xpath("//entry[1]/link")[0];
echo $xmlFeed->xpath("//entry[1]/id")[0];
I tried multiple style of XPath and it never work, I also tried to use DOMDocument and DOMXPath classes and it didn't work.
I use similar code for a wordpress rss and all works fine.
What am I wrong?
As per SimpleXMLElement::xpath's doc page's first comment:
To run an xpath query on an XML document that has a namespace, the
namespace must be registered with
SimpleXMLElement::registerXPathNamespace() before running the query.
If the XML document namespace does not include a prefix, you must make
up an arbitrary one, and then use it in your query.
You should therefore do this:
$xmlFeed = simplexml_load_file('https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCo0bvu1jzU4WpHS3FglLU8g');
foreach ($xmlFeed->getDocNamespaces() as $prefix => $namespace) {
$xmlFeed->registerXPathNamespace($prefix ?: 'default', $namespace);
}
echo $xmlFeed->xpath('//default:entry[1]/default:title')[0];
echo $xmlFeed->xpath('//default:entry[1]/default:link')[0];
echo $xmlFeed->xpath('//default:entry[1]/default:id')[0];
Note: feel free to use something shorter than default if it's inconvenient.
Related
So, this is a follow-up question to my previous question that was solved, here's the link to it:
using data from child element to select data in other element using simplexml in php
thanks to #RomanPerekhrest for solving this.
I have this piece of php code using simplexml to read my xml file
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('../uploads/reports/report.xml');
$hits = $xml->xpath("results/hits/#rule_id");
$ruleIds = array_map(function($v){ // getting search path for each needed rule
return "profile_info/rules/rule[#id='". (string)$v. "']";
}, $hits);
foreach ($xml->xpath(implode(" | ", $ruleIds)) as $rule) {
echo '<div id="name">'. $rule->display_name .'</div>'.
'<div id="comment">'. $rule->display_comment .'</div>';
}
?>
again, thanks to #RomanPerekhrest for coming up with this.
This piece of code works fine with my simplified xml-file I created to illustrate my problems in my previous questions, but when I apply it, it doesn't seem to render.
I've found the reason why, in my root element there are some xmlns attributes that cause my xml not to load. When I manually remove these attributes, everything works as expected. (I will not the list the entire xml document, since it is 8500+ lines long)
Here is the root element with the attributes:
<report xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.callassoftware.com/namespace/pi4 pi4_results_schema.xsd" xmlns="http://www.callassoftware.com/namespace/pi4" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
I need a way to bypass in php. Seeing as these xml files are generated by other software and the lack of settings in this generation, I cannot simply make these xml files without these attributes.
Thanks
Your XML has default namespace declared at the root element, which descendant elements without prefix inherit implicitly :
xmlns="http://www.callassoftware.com/namespace/pi4"
To reference element in default namespace, you need to map a prefix to the default namespace URI, and then use that prefix in your XPath :
//register prefix 'd' to reference default namespace URI
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('d', 'http://www.callassoftware.com/namespace/pi4');
//use the prefix to reference elements in the default namespace
$hits = $xml->xpath("d:results/d:hits/#rule_id");
$ruleIds = array_map(function($v){ // getting search path for each needed rule
return "d:profile_info/d:rules/d:rule[#id='". (string)$v. "']";
}, $hits);
Very stumped by this one. In PHP, I'm fetching a YouTube user's vids feed and trying to access the nodes, like so:
$url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/HCAFCOfficial/uploads';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
So far, so fine. Really basic stuff. I can see the data comes back by running:
echo '<p>Found '.count($xml->xpath('*')).' nodes.</p>'; //41
echo '<textarea>';print_r($xml);echo '</textarea>';
Both print what I would expect, and the print_r replicates the XML structure.
However, I have no idea why this is returning zero:
echo '<p>Found '.count($xml->xpath('entry')).'"entry" nodes.</p>';
There blatantly are entry nodes in the XML. This is confirmed by running:
foreach($xml->xpath('*') as $node) echo '<p>['.$node->getName().']</p>';
...which duly outputs "[entry]" 25 times. So perhaps this is a bug in SimpleXML? This is part of a wider feed caching system and I'm not having any trouble with other, non-YT feeds, only YT ones.
[UPDATE]
This question shows that it works if you do
count($xml->entry)
But I'm curious as to why count($xml->xpath('entry')) doesn't also work...
[Update 2]
I can happily traverse YT's anternate feed format just fine:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/{user id}/uploads?alt=rss&v=2
This is happening because the feed is an Atom document with a defined default namespace.
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ...
Since a namespace is defined, you have to define it for your xpath call too. Doing something like this works:
$url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/HCAFCOfficial/uploads';
$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
$xml->registerXPathNamespace('ns', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');
$results = $xml->xpath('ns:entry');
echo count($results);
The main thing to know here is that SimpleXML respects any and all defined namespaces and you need to handle them accordingly, including the default namespace. You'll notice that the second feed you listed does not define a default namespace and so the xpath call works fine as is.
I am grabbing the contents from google with PhP, how can I search $page for elements with the id of "#lga" and echo out another property? Say #lga is an image, how would I echo out it's source?
No, i'm not going to do this with Google, Google is strictly an example and testing page.
<body><img id="lga" src="snail.png" /></body>
I want to find the element named "lga" and echo out it's source; so the above code I would want to echo out "snail.png".
This is what i'm using and how i'm storing what I found:
<?php
$url = "https://www.google.com/";
$page = file($url);
foreach($page as $part){
}
?>
You can achieve this using the built-in DOMDocument class. This class allows you to work with HTML in a structured manner rather than parsing plain text yourself, and it's quite versatile:
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
To get the src attribute of the element with the id lga, you could simply use:
$imageSrc = $dom->getElementById('lga')->getAttribute('src');
Note that DOMDocument::loadHTML will generate warnings when it encounters invalid HTML. The method's doc page has a few notes on how to suppress these warnings.
Also, if you have control over the website you are parsing the HTML from, it might be more appropriate to have a dedicated script to serve the information you are after. Unless you need to parse exactly what's on a page as it is served, extracting data from HTML like this could be quite wasteful.
I'm trying to get the $xml->entry->yt:statistics->attributes()->viewCount attribute, and I've tried some stuff with SimpleXML, and I can't really get it working!
Attempt #1
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=Google");
echo $xml->entry[0]->yt:statistics['viewCount'];
?>
Attempt #2
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=Google");
echo $xml->entry[0]->yt:statistics->attributes()->viewCount;
?>
Both of which return blank, though SimpleXML is working, I tried to get the feed's title, which worked!
Any ideas?
I've looked at loads of other examples on SO and other sites, but somehow this isn't working? does PHP recognize the ':' to be a cut-off, or am I just doing something stupid?
Thank you, any responses greatly appreciated!
If you just want to get the viewcount of a youtube video then you have to specify the video ID. The youtube ID is found in each video url. For example "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccI-MugndOU" so the id is ccI-MugndOU. In order to get the viewcount then try the code below
$sample_video_ID = "ccI-MugndOU";
$JSON = file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q={$sample_video_ID}&alt=json");
$JSON_Data = json_decode($JSON);
$views = $JSON_Data->{'feed'}->{'entry'}[0]->{'yt$statistics'}->{'viewCount'};
echo $views;
I would use the gdata component from the zend framework. Is also available as a separate module, so you don't need to use the whole zend.
The yt: prefix marks that element as being in a different "XML namespace" from the rest of the document. You have to tell SimpleXML to switch to that namespace using the ->children() method.
The line you were attempting should actually look like this:
echo (string)$xml->entry[0]->children('yt', true)->statistics->attributes(NULL)->viewCount;
To break this down:
(string) - this is just a good habit: you want the string contents of the attribute, not a SimpleXML object representing it
$xml->entry[0] - as expected
->children('yt', true) - switch to the namespace with the local alias 'yt'
->statistics - as expected
->attributes(NULL) - technically, the attribute "viewCount" is back in the default namespace, because it is not prefixed with "yt:", so we have to switch back in order to see it
->viewCount - running ->attributes() gives us nothing but attributes, which are accessed with ->foo not ['foo']
I'm using SimpleXML . I want to get this node's text attribute.
<yweather:condition text="Mostly Cloudy" ......
I'm using this it's not working :
$xml->children("yweather", TRUE)->condition->attributes()->text;
Do a print_r() on $xml to see how the structure looks. From there you should be able to see how to access the information.
It looks like you are trying to access an attribute, which is stored in an array in $xml->yweather->attributes() so:
$attributes = $xml->condition->attributes();
$weather = $attributes['text'];
To deal with the namespace, you need to use children() to get the members of that namespace.
$weather_items = $xml->channel->item->children("http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0");
It might help to mention that the string you showed is part of a feed, specifically the RSS formatted Yahoo Weather feed.
You would probably use $xml->condition but there may be branches before that.