php - Get contents of a div from a URL

I need to crawl through a page and get the contents of a particular div. I have php and javascript as my two main options. How can it be done?

Answer

This is quite a basic method to do it PHP and it returns the content in plain text. However you might consider revising the regex for your particular need.

  $link = file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com");

  $file = strip_tags($link, "
");
  preg_match_all("/
(?:[^<]*)<\/div>/is", $file, $content);
  print_r($content); 
?>