page using JS to display info - need to extract that info

Question

I need to turn the results of the leaderboard here secondsync.com/leaderboard.html#Wed-May-22-2013/totals into a feed.

They use a js to pull this info. How do I indentify the JS and pull the data from another page?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe you could use this tutorial
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/php-crawler-tutorial/ (requires some PHP and REGEX skills)
to crawl the content of the page then use REGEX to access the content you need.

With regex you could match() the first:

<td class="tweets">*<td>

you should get something like

<td class="tweets">91,621<td>

Then replace() every <*> with ''

and the number 91,621 remains.

This could be modified to <'td class="peak">* , if you are interested in the peak or something similar, just look up how they (secondsync) describe it in their source code.

Sorry for not helping better, I can´t think of a better solution right now.