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Archive for April 2010

Using cURL to Read the Contents of a Web Page

Recently I wrote about how to use the Yahoo! weather api with WordPress and in the comments I was asked how to use it without relying on WordPress. The answer - is cURL.

According to Wikipedia the name cURL comes from "Client for URLs" and it is essentially a command line interface for a web client. This means that you can access web content through a script on your site. This is most often used by websites when they access ...

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