Published March 26, 2017 © Apache-2.0

Fetch Data From Websites Using XPATH and PHP

This video is about XPATH and PHP. Xpath is an element in the XSLT standard. Here, our matter of interest is to use XPATH with PHP.

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Fetch Data From Websites Using XPATH and PHP

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This video is about XPATH and PHP. Xpath is an element in the XSLT standard. Here, our matter of interest is to use XPATH with PHP server scripting language to fetch some required information from websites like a YouTube subscriber count, twitter followers, etc. So if you are interested in making something like live Facebook or Twitter follower counters, you can use it to do the job. You can upload the script to online server, or you can use it in your local server or you can even store the file to Raspberry Pi server.

And if you are new to server and PHP you can checkout my earlier videos on making a Raspberry Pi server or installing XAMPP on your PC, for which I have provided the links down below in the description. After putting the script to the server, you just need to call the page to fetch the required data. You can do so from any browser or even if any microcontrollers. In this video, I will show you how to retrieve Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers count from my channel.