PHP bot to get wikipedia definitions
Wikipedia, the collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia project, has a lot of usefull terms defined in its database, you can find informations on artists, cities, medical terms, cars, brands… quite...
View ArticlePHP Geocoding function, from address to coordinates lat long
This is a small function included in the Minibots Class that converts an address to a couple of coordinates Latitude, Longitude that can be used to place a marker on a map. This function uses Google’s...
View Articleget MySpace events with a PHP function
Here is a function to read the concerts for a myspace band page. This code retrieves the “shows page” for a specified myspace username, and than parse the html to find and decode data. Since myspace...
View ArticleHow to use Instagr.am photos on your site
The question is: how can I bring my instagram photos on my personal web site? With this tutorial you can make this. I’m addicted to Instagram, I make photos quite every day with it. But I’m also a...
View ArticlePHP code to check if remote mp3 exists
Hi, I’ve a big table with thousands of mp3 links. Sice these links come from an old database, many of them are old and expired. Here is a function that I’ve included in my Minibots Class. The function...
View ArticleHow to read facebook likes count from PHP
When you add facebook like button to your site, probably, you also want to save the number of likes of your pages to your database.These data are very useful and very important because they tell you...
View ArticleMake a cron job with IFTTT
Cron is a software utility, a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. People who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs to run periodically at...
View ArticleHow to build a spider… uh, well an email scraper
What is a spider? A spider is a program that automatically navigates web pages to find informations. These informations can be of any kind, Google, for example has a spider named Googlebot, which is...
View ArticleGet instagram data without official api in PHP
Instagram has an official API to interact with its database of images and users. If you have enough time to understand oAuth protocol and build a bunch of functions to deal with instagram API, that’s...
View ArticleScraping content with PHP as if it was jQuery
Building a spider or a bot needs some knowledge of regular expressions, you must know and use preg_match or preg_match_all to selectively find tags and extract informations from the html source....
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