What | Deliver content from the California Highway Patrol Live Incidents website to mobile users through Short Messaging Service (SMS) |
Protocols Used | Not applicable |
Data Formats | RSS |
Tools Featured | PHP’s DOM Extensions |
APIs Used | 411Sync |
And, on this project, we will learn how to use the dark arts. No, I’m not talking about controlling mindless zombies through black magic. I’m talking about screen-scraping.
In this project, we will screen-scrape from the California Highway Patrol website. The CHP maintains a website of traffic incidents. This site auto-refreshes every minute, ensuring the user gets live data about accidents throughout the state of California. This is very valuable if you are in front of a computer. If you are out and about running errands, it would be useless unless you had an Internet-enabled personal digital assistant. Even then, the site uses JavaScript and frames, and may not work on many PDA web browsers. More widely available than...