PHP-从完全加载的外部页面加载HTML

Question

I'm new to AJAX and php and have been trying to figure out how use a PHP HTML DOM Parser to fetch the html from an external site. However, the html fetched is the one immediately loaded into DOM and I require elements which are included later on in the page via Javascript. How do I fetch the latter with PHP.

Example: When I use my parser to load: http://csgo.exchange/id/76561198078821986 the big numerical value in the h3 tag on the left is "0.00" because the h3 tag is loaded into dom with a value of "0.00" and later modified to its real value via Javascript. How do I fetch the real value?

Answer 1

The reason you can't use the PHP Parser on that page is because it doesn't run the javascript, only the HTML.

If you insist on getting the data from that page you'll need a headless browser like PhantomJS

Otherwise the way to get the data is to find where the javascript is getting it from and pass the same variables.

In your case it's: http://csgo.exchange/inventory/76561198078821986/retry/

You can now parse this URL with the PHP HTML Parser instead and get the values you need.

A good rule to keep is to always try to find the data in it's rawest form either as html or json . Chrome's network tab is your best friend.