Wordpress from url get external source title

scubetheme · October 14, 2015, 12:52pm

Hi I am building a news website. I am trying to automate it.

News url (metabox)
Title
Content area
Image (featured image option on
wordpress)

When paste the site url I would like the other metabox to pull the data from the source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34527439

I want title and description to pulled form bbc website

News url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34527439
Title: Should be fetched from <title>
Content area: should be from <meta name="description">
Image: Should be first image on the content

I see you can use php cURL any more pointers to wordpress would be much appreciated php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

Thanks

themestry · October 15, 2015, 3:16am

You can use wp_remote_get function https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_remote_get

peersolutions · October 15, 2015, 1:49pm

You can create Ajax listener in your plugin or theme.
Then onFocus event you can validate value of url input metabox via JavaScript and trigger that Ajax listner.
Ajax listener may use wp_remote_get functions to pull all the information as raw response.
Then you can get what you want give back to JavaScript trigger and update necessary fields…

Happy Wordpressing…

scubetheme · April 21, 2017, 6:15am

Thanks guys. I will try it out.