Xpath php fetch links

Question

I\'m using this example to fetch links from a website :

http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/scraping-links-with-php/

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
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Answer 1

You are looking for the "nodeValue" of the Textnode inside the "a" node. You can get that value with

$title = $href->firstChild->nodeValue;

Full working example:

DONE");

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//a");

for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {
    $href = $hrefs->item($i);
    $url = $href->getAttribute('href');
    $title = $href->firstChild->nodeValue;
    echo "
Link stored: $url $title";
}

Prints:

Link stored: www.test.de DONE