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Dec 02.2008

Hello,
I have a question concerning reading data from one website and showing it on another. for example; this website streams the data
[url]http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=866851[/url]
from the official site here
[url]http://fanzone.playonline.com/lscom/characterAllData.do?EQUIP_LINKSHELL_ID_STRING=GcxqsvdLNnxhMCBWJtXUFg-3D-3D&VIEW_LINKSHELL_ID_STRING=r1YbDOUo0PaCRO3o7vfjMCFrR6fNRRLNQmwqYdIVOpk-3D[/url]
For those who don’t know what the websites are they are for the MMORPG Final Fantasy XI only, ok now to my question my website would like to be able to have peoples job levels, crafts and all that without having to do over 100 members manually. So I got the idea to stream the data from the official site. like the ffxiah website did, but I am not good at javascript or how they did it I contacted the website they refused to help, I’m not trying to be just like their website it’s just so our members have updated profiles with no hassle. Any help on showing the data on our website from the official website would be much help. Thanks

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@voidvectorDec 02.2008 — It is not streamed, it is hosted locally. FFXIAH probably have a web crawler that retrieve the information from the main site and rehost it. They may even have an in-game addon that would help them collect information.
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@CuppyTeaDec 02.2008 — It is not streamed, it is hosted locally. FFXIAH probably have a web crawler that retrieve the information from the main site and rehost it. They may even have an in-game addon that would help them collect information.[/QUOTE]

The game developer will most likely provide a feed (or API), which allows external sites to read the contents of the database any pull tany information they want, to use it in any way.

I'm not sure if its the case here, as i'm not too intrested in the games to find out.

If there is no feed availilbe, then you should look at using a server language such as PHP, pull the content off that page and manipulate it to form what output you want, its hardly ideal- because if the website you are retrieiving data from change the layout of their webpage, your method of retrieving content will no longer be valid.
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@rnd_meDec 02.2008 — if you must cross domains, look into jsonp.
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