Loging to Xing with Curl + Php

Question

I am trying to make a dashboard application, that among others will retrieve information from a xing account and store it in our database. Right now, we the default oauth implementation, if the user is not logged in, it asks for his permission, and then returns back to the webpage that all the information is shown.

We need to automate the login process, so that every day for example, our php script will run and copy our xing contacts in the database. But we need that happening without manually loging in to Xing.

I have read/tried a lot of the curl/php scripts for logging in a website, but none of them actually worked for xing.

Can someone please provide me with the php script that would just login to xing.com?

Thanks a lot for your time...

Answer 1

Xing seem to have an API . That would be the vastly superior way to fetch data from them.

Scraping the web site is prone to breaking, and probably against their Terms and Conditions, too.