# Is there a way for the parser to follow links?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-for-the-parser-to-follow-links/10925>\
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion\
**Created:** [October 9, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-for-the-parser-to-follow-links/10925 "2010-10-09T11:31:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-for-the-parser-to-follow-links/10925/1 "2010-10-09T11:31:48Z")

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Hi there!

Is there a way for the parser to follow links and get inforamtion from sites which are linked to the page which is actually scanned for infromation.

E.g. from a release page in [discogs.com](http://discogs.com): getting more album art than the cover picture by following the link "more images" or getting information like "Real Name" or "Aliases" by following the artist links.

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**Author:** ![monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@monty68](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/monty68)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-for-the-parser-to-follow-links/10925/2 "2011-01-03T23:41:39Z")

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Hi Pone, I am after a similar function but for slightly diferent reasons, I want to tag a batch of TV epsidoes in one go like getting an albums tracks.

Anyhow, I have been working on a different approach. I have written a php web service script  
(only for IMDB at the moment) that does just what you want, running on a web server.  
It acts as a proxy and follows certain links, grabs all the information (from about 9 different pages). The result is either a simple HTML display of the data, an XML file and soon to be a JSON object as well.

I am thinking about adding other scrapers so maybe able to do something for you.

I am a few weeks away but if anyone is interested in helping me, beta testing or even doing  
the mp3tag scripts to scrpae from the XML, then let me know.

Regards  
Monty

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**Author:** ![ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ms6676749](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ms6676749)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-way-for-the-parser-to-follow-links/10925/3 "2016-04-07T16:29:16Z")

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Has this (parser following links) ever come to pass?