Scraping iframe video from other sites through PHP - php

Question

I want to scrape video from other sites to my sites (e.g. from a live video site).
How can I scrape the <iframe> video from other websites? Is the process the same as that for scraping images?
$html = file_get_contents('http://website.com/');
$dom = new domDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$iframes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('frame');
foreach ($iframes as $iframe) {
$pic = $iframe->getAttribute('src');
echo '<li><frame src="'.$pic.'"';
}

Answer 1

This post is a little old, but still, here's my answer:
I'd recommend you to use cURL and Xpath to scrape the site and parse the HTML data. file_get_content has some security issues and some hosts may disable it. You could do something like this:
<?php
function scrape($URL){
//cURL options
$options = Array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, //return html data in string instead of printing it out on screen
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE, //follow header('Location: location');
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 60, //max time to try to connect to page
CURLOPT_HEADER => FALSE, //include header
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0", //User Agent
CURLOPT_URL => $URL //SET THE URL
);
$ch = curl_init($URL);//initialize a cURL session
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);//set the cURL options
$data = curl_exec($ch);//execute cURL (the scraping)
curl_close($ch);//close the cURL session
return $data;
}
function parse(&$data, $query, &$dom){
$Xpath = new DOMXpath($dom); //new Xpath object associated to the domDocument
$result = $Xpath->query($query);//run the Xpath query through the HTML
var_dump($result);
return $result;
}
//new domDocument
$dom = new DomDocument("1.0");
//Scrape and parse
$data = scrape('http://stream-tv-series.net/2013/02/22/new-girl-s1-e6-thanksgiving/'); //scrape the website
#$dom->loadHTML($data); //load the html data to the dom
$XpathQuery = '//iframe'; //Your Xpath query could look something like this
$iframes = parse($data, $XpathQuery, $dom); //parse the HTML with Xpath
foreach($iframes as $iframe){
$src = $iframe->getAttribute('src'); //get the src attribute
echo '<li><iframe src="' . $src . '"></iframe></li>'; //echo the iframes
}
?>
Here are some links that you could find useful:
cURL: http://php.net/manual/fr/book.curl.php
Xpath: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/
There is also the DomDocument documention on php.net. I can't post the link, I don't have enough reputation.