[uf-discuss] Parsing XFN in PHP

[André Luís]

Hi Julian,

You can either use hkit ( http://code.google.com/p/hkit/ ) or the
SocialGraph API, by Google (http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/).

Cheers,
André

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Julian Bond <julian_bond at voidstar.com> wrote:
> I need some advice about reading rel="me" tags in arbitrary web pages using
> PHP. I'm intending to use this to help build a lifestream style function.
> The basic intent is to cut down the amount of data entry the user has to do.
> When they give me a MyBlogLog, Friendfeed, Plaxo Pulse page that has lists
> of links to their profile pages I should be able to avoid having to ask them
> for all of them again. So:-
>
>  - User gives me a URL for one of their profile pages
>  - Use Curl to collect the source
>  - Parse the source looking for links with a rel="me"
>  - Extract an array of Link URL - Link Text
>  - Do something useful with the array. (???? followed by Profit!)
>
>  I've been searching this morning for a PHP library to do the parsing and
> link extraction or PHP examples or example regex to use in PREG_MATCH_ALL or
> something/anything, without success. Since the source data is probably badly
> written and broken html, I don't think I can use XML methods as all the XML
> unserialising code I've used barfs on badly formed XML. One possibility I
> suppose is to run it though HTML-Tidy first but I run the (admittedly small)
> chance of html-tidy wiping out some of the links.
>
>  So what do people use to consume XFN with PHP?
>
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