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    <p>If you have the raw HTML of the page you want to parse you can use a preg_match to find it.</p> <p>If you don't have the HTML this should help you: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/819182/how-do-i-get-the-html-code-of-a-web-page-in-php">How do I get the HTML code of a web page in PHP?</a></p> <p><a href="http://php.net/manual/es/function.preg-match.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">preg_match()</a></p> <p>This function lets you parse a string with a regular expression pattern. It would be recommended to get only a fraction of the HTML to parse, not all the page. For example, in this case I would try to get the HTML of the first table (the one that doesn't have info of the previous episode).</p> <pre><code>$subject="the HTML of the url you want to parse"; $pattern='/Number:&lt;\/td&gt;&lt;td.+?&gt;(\d+)&lt;\//'; if(preg_match($pattern, $subject, $hits)){ echo "Number: $hits[0]"; } </code></pre> <p>In case you don't know how a regular expression works: </p> <p>'.' is a reserved character that means 'any character', the '+' right after it means 'one or more than one' and the '?' makes the regular expression non-greedy. So if we sum it up '.+?' means 'one or more of any character, but make it as short as possible'.</p> <p>'(' and ')' indicates we want to retrieve what is between them, and '\d' means a number. So '(\d+)' means 'put that combination of numbers in the $hits array'.</p> <p>If you use the same regular expression but with preg_match_all you would retrieve all the numbers of the web that follow that same pattern, they would be inside the $hits array.</p>
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    1. COThanks a lot for the tip. After around 5 hours working on this, I managed to accomplish it using the Simple HTML DOM without any complications. I used a combination of CURL + HTML DOM. I'll post what I did for others to take a look if they wish. I had an important question though. I know how to retrieve a page through file_get_contents() and curl, but I have no idea how to retrieve "part of it" for the purpose. Appreciate any help on that.
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