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How can I automatically upload to a database data from tables like the one in this page? I can use their function "export" and then manually download the .csv file, and upload it, but if I want everyday the data from each game, it is a pain... do you think it is possible to automatize it? The only solution would be by scraping their website?
Thanks

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You could use the cURL lib of PHP.
Here there's an example:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout
$url = 'http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201506160CLE.html'; // set the page url
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);//enter your url here
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch); //get the page contents
include "simple_html_dom.php";
$table = $file_contents;
$html = str_get_html($table);
$printing = false;
//header('Content-type: application/ms-excel');
$fp = fopen("php://output", "w");
foreach($html->find('tr') as $element){
$arr = array();
foreach ($element->find('tr') as $element2) {
if(!$printing)
$printing = strpos($element2,'Scoring') !== false;
if($printing){
//echo $element2 -> plaintext . "<br>";
$arr[] = $element2 -> plaintext; //comment here
}
}
fputcsv($fp, $arr);
}
fclose($fp);
?>
You have to download a file from here.
You get a text/csv file in your page, if you prefere a plain it's sufficient switch comments (comment line where is requested and decomment the others)
You can parse your new csv as you want