Another cURL & PHP 'Opportunity'

[Tony]

So this one has been getting to me for a while now.. There is a site that I am trying to log in to, go to a reports page after a successful login, and then download up to 3 reports that are linked on that page.

 

 

The problem that I'm having is that the reports are randomly named, and I can't get curl to download them.

 

I'll post the html file that the site spit back out to me.. Can someone see how to download the 3 files that are on that page without hardcoding the file name?

 

The 3 reports are named:

 

My Company Invoice Upload_516_146_2012391728360

 

My Company Invoice Upload_516_146_20123917221402

 

My Company Patient Upload_516_146_2012391723258

 

My Scheduled Reports.htm

[Nathan]

Hopefully Brandon can help you with this one. He seems pretty knowledgeable on this.

[Brandon]

If you are scraping these out with regex:

/Home/frmMyReportOpen.aspx?FileName=018a257a-4fa1-42e3-af0d-f818e4dfda3c.csv&FileExtension=CSV&FilePath=192.168.9.95BTReports

and you are trying to get the csv file with a new cURL call you have to make the

&

into a "&" with html_entity_decode

http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

 

And you have to prepend the base url to that one as well as it is a relative path.

[Tony]

It's probably gonna take me a minute to digest what you are saying, but Thank You, and I will see if I can figure it out... Do you know of a tutorial that can tell me how to scrape with regex? I'm going to google it but if you have a good one in mind I'd like to hear it

 

Thanks!