How to scrape html contents of one div by id using php
html, php, scrape, web-scraping
Solution
$doc->getElementById('thisone');// returns a single element with id this one
Try `$node=$doc->getElementById('thisone');` and then print `$node`
On a side note, you can use phpQuery for a jquery like syntext: `pq("#thisone")`
Problem
The page on another of my domains which I'd like to scrape one div from contains: ``` <div id="thisone"> <p>Stuff</p> </div> <div id="notthisone"> <p>More stuff</p> </div> ``` Using this php... ``` <?php $page = file_get_contents('http://thisite.org/source.html'); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadHTML($page); foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('div') as $node) { echo $doc->saveHtml($node), PHP_EOL; } ?> ``` ...gives me all divs on http://thisite.org/source.html, with html. However, I only want to pull through the div with an id of "thisone" but using: ``` foreach ($doc->getElementById('thisone') as $node) { ``` doesn't bring up anything.