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**cjhoward**

I'm very new to regex and I spent a few hours reading regex tutorials and examples, but I'm afraid I'm going to need some help since I need to get this script working asap.

I'm trying to make a video search engine which parses the content of a $url and extracts the video URLs and the image URLs the videos are linked to. Possible video formats are (wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg)

Example remote URL containing videos/images urls:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<div>Header</div>
<div>Unimportant links<br>
<a href="http://www.unimportantsite1.com">unimportant site 1</a><br>
<a href="http://www.unimportantsite2.com">unimportant site 2</a><br>
</div>

Video 1:
<a href="video1.wmv"><img src="video1.jpg" width="320" height="240"></a>
<br>

Video 2:
<a href="video2.wmv"><img src="video2.jpg" width="320" height="240"></a>

Video 3:
<a href="video3.wmv"><img src="video3.jpg" width="320" height="240"></a>
</body>
</html>

This is as far as I can get for the PHP file:

PHP Code:


<?php

$contents = file_get_contents($url);



//GET VIDEOS

//get filename/urls of video files (could be full url or path to file)

//attributes could be in single quotes href='video2.wmv' 

//double href="video2.wmv" or no quotes href=video2.wmv

preg_match_all("/[(\"|\')\z](.*)(wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg)/imU",$contents,$matches);



//GET IMAGES 

//get filename/urls of video files (could be full url or path to file) 

//between anchor tags: src="" of <img> tag

//attributes could be in single quotes src='video2.jpg' 

//double src="video2.jpg" or no quotes src=video2.jpg



//image types/extensions are important here since I just need what's

// in the img src attribute (height,width,border don't matter either)



//echo the video and image urls -

//in example it would be: video1.wmv + video1.jpg, 

//video2.wmv + video2.jpg, video3.wmv + video3.jpg





?>

**techMonster**

Try this one:

<(a|img).*?(href|src)="(.*?\.(wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|jpg|jpeg))".*?>

It would give links in 4th group.

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Need to get video file URLs + linked images