Preg_match（_all）无法从Google收集一些数据

Question

I'm creating a tool for my websites to see what position they are in Google on different keywords.

Now, I want to collect this part of their sourcecode:

<a href="http://www.test.com/" class=l onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','','1','','0CBoQFjAA')">Linktitle in Google!</a>

The problem is that the preg_match OR preg_match_all function doesn't match "onmousedown" or "this.href" or the ,'1' part of the link. And that is exactly the part i need...

Does anyone has an idea why this is, and more important.. how to solve this???

The code I use is obvious.. i even tried to use "/onmousedown/" or "/\'1\'/" but it didn't help.

Thank you very much!!!!

Answer 1

Besides the ethical and possible legal implications of scraping Google, you should not be using regular expressions to extract portions of HTML. Regular expressions were not designed to parse HTML and are not equipped for the specific grammar.

Try using a HTML parser, such as DOMDocument. It was designed to parse HTML/XML.