Retrieve data contained a certain span class

Question

using file_get_contents, I open an Internet URL and get the contents of this webpage.

Inside the HTML there are many identical span class tags:

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Answer 1

If I understood correctly, this has to be PHP as it is on the server, not in the browser. So I'd do something like

$html=file_get_contents(HTML_URL);
$a=preg_match_all("/\(.*?)\<\/span\>/",$html,$b);
echo $a;
print_r($b[1]);

$a has hit count, $b[1] the hits

Tested this against

.. blah ..


.. blah ..

always dynamic text A
always dynamic text B
always dynamic text C

.. blah ..

and output was

3
Array
(
    [0] => always dynamic text A
    [1] => always dynamic text B
    [2] => always dynamic text C
)