Anyone successfully parsed the GE with PHP?

I use file_get_contents() on the hiscores and it works fine but on the GE it just times out. I tried setting my user agent to the same as my firefox one and that didn't help either. I thought it might be the random code in the "P" GET value and cookie but I took it out of both and it seems to work fine in my browser.

Feeling a little stuck at the first hurdle and any tips would be appreciated.

Edit - Tried a browser mimicking script called Snoopy that had the same problems but the HTTP_Request PEAR package works a charm. Now to rip that bitch and make some lovely calculators, firstly a summoning costs one me thinks. ^_^

 

I don't know what you're talking about, but paste a link, and I'll try for myself.

 

The GE section of the RS website doesn't let scripts download its contents so I wasn't quite sure how to continue with my GE ripping script. Luckily there's a PEAR package called HTTP_Request that pretends to be a web browser and it all works fine now. After several hours of googling and fucking about .

 

You could have just used cURL. >__>