PHP Web Scrape with PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Question

I am trying to get a data field using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. I can pull the links, images etc but cannot get a certain data attribute.

Example HTML -

<div id="used">
    <div id="srpVehicle-1C3CCCEG2FN601809" class="vehicle" data-vin="1C3CCCEG2FN601809">
    <div id="srpVehicle-1C3CCCEG2FN601810" class="vehicle" data-vin="1f2CfCEG2FN266778">
</div>

I would like to get all the "data-vin" fields on a site.

Here is my go at it -

$html = file_get_html($url);

foreach($html->find("div[data-vin]", 0) as $vin){
  echo $vin."<br>";
}

But it returns the whole page when I echo $vin. How can I access that data-vin field?

Looking at the documentation I think you want to use: $html->find("div[data-vin]", 0). — KIKO Software
– KIKO Software, Commented May 2, 2019 at 19:16
Thank you, you are correct. It returns the whole page though when I echo $vin — Ryan D
– Ryan D, Commented May 2, 2019 at 19:20

Stephen Clouse · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-02 19:30:37Z

1

$html->find("data-vin", 0)

is looking for tags named data-vin, when you really want tags with the attribute data-vin.

foreach($html->find("[data-vin]") as $tag){
    echo $tag->getAttribute('data-vin')."<br>";
}

edited May 2, 2019 at 19:30

answered May 2, 2019 at 19:23

Stephen Clouse

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2 Comments

Ryan D Over a year ago

Thank you but it gives me the error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on integer

Stephen Clouse Over a year ago

@RyanD I left in something incorrect from the original code. Please see edit.

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