使用PHP从Codechef获取数据

Question

This may seem a bit off-topic but I would be grateful if somebody helps out with this. I have codechef ID's of few people. I want to monitor their performance like successfull submissions, total submissions etc. Unfortunately, Codechef doesn't provide an API for this. But some websites like Hackerearth do it anyway !

So I want to ask, what method (legal method) should I follow to fetch that data if I have usernames of those people ? And if I am doing this, is there anything illegal in this ?

Answer 1

This is called Web Scrapping. You can use curl or file_get_contents().

Please have a look here