Scraping information from an external website using jquery load and php

Question

I am trying to scrape a random word from a random word generating website. Through reading other forum posts it seems that jquery load is the way to go in conjunction with some short PHP. I've created a PHP file called "grabber.php" which contains one line:

<?php echo file_get_contents($_GET['url']); ?>

Then I call this in my javascript like so:

$("#word").load('grabber.php?url=http://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomWord #result')

The tag holding the random word on the external site is result and the tag which I want my site to hold the data is word.

For some reason it isn't working at all. It will delete whatever is held in the word tag header. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

If it helps, my html code is:

<!doctype html>
<html>

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src=timer.js></script>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Hello</h1>
<h2 id="time">The Timer is Here: </h2>
<h2 id="word">Word Goes Here</h2> </body>


</html>

Nick Tucci · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-12 06:58:40Z

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You can process the request purely through PHP, no need for the $_GET['url'] either.

Within your grabber.php file, you can use cURL, or some library like Guzzle to make an HTTP request to watchout4snakes. When the request is received, you can use json_decode to turn the JSON string into an object. You can then send the word to the client using $('#word').load().

Guzzle: https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle

answered Oct 12, 2016 at 6:58

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