using PHP simple html dom get attributes name in span?

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I am not if 'tags' are the right term but i have to get the "data-time" values from this span into an array. How can I use simple html dom to get them?

Here is on span I am trying to get the "data-time" out of.

include('../simpleHtmlDom/simple_html_dom.php');

// Put the Twitters username here
$user = "yadayada";

$html = file_get_html("https://twitter.com/$user");
$ret = $html->find('div[class=ProfileTweet-contents]'); 
$ret = $html->find('p[class=ProfileTweet-text js-tweet-text u-dir]'); 

/// tries to get the time code but does only gets the span
$date = $html->find('span[class=js-short-timestamp js-relative-timestamp]', 0);

$DoesNotWork = $html->find( "data-time", 0 );


echo $ret[1]; // get's a users tweet. 

echo $DoesNotWork;

The result of the date

<span class="js-short-timestamp js-relative-timestamp"
    data-time="1401528672"
    data-long-form="true">
    15h
  </span>

I would think it is something like this but this code does not work. $html->find( "data-time", 0 );

You can use regular expression, preg_match("/data-time=.*"/", $input_line, $output_array); — bitkot
– bitkot, Commented Jun 1, 2014 at 4:36

The Alpha · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-01 05:00:44Z

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You may try this:

// Include the script
$url = 'https://twitter.com/yourusername';
$html = file_get_html($url);
$dateTimes = array();
foreach ($html->find('div.GridTimeline .js-short-timestamp') as $value) {
    $dateTimes[] = $value->innertext;
}

Result of print_r($dateTimes);:

Array
(
    [0] =>      2h   
    [1] =>      2h   
    [2] =>      2h   
    // Truncated...
    [10] =>      11h   
    [11] =>      May 30   
    [12] =>      May 30   
    [13] =>      May 6   
    // Truncated...
)

answered Jun 1, 2014 at 5:00

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Papa De Beau · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-04 23:40:58Z

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I was able to get the date using this code, tho I think there is a better way. I think it would be best to find a simple dom code that gets the text of the date-time in line

<span class"js-short-timestamp js-relative-timestamp" date-time="89393748474">

but instead I used two "list" php lines as seen below and that worked.

$dateTimes = array();
foreach ($html->find('div.GridTimeline .js-short-timestamp') as $value) {
    $dateTimes[] = $value->outertext;
}
//  These are the lines I get the date-time from.
list($Gone,$Keep) = explode("data-time=\"", $dateTimes[0]);
list($Date,$Gone) = explode("\"", $Keep);

$Date =  date('M d, Y', $Date);

answered Jun 4, 2014 at 23:40

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pguardiario · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-06 00:17:28Z

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You want to use:

$html->find( "[data-time]", 0 );

answered Jun 6, 2014 at 0:17

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Gen.Stack · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-05 00:16:56Z

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In case anyone landing here in 2021, following no 1 google search result:

Unless I misinterpreted your intention, you might achieve what you want using (with simplehtmldom):

$html->find('span[data-time]')->attr[data-time];

The official simplehtmldom documentation fails to mention that. However, https://stackoverflow.com/a/14456823/10050838 is one possible source.

answered Jan 5, 2021 at 0:16

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