Parse JSON data inside from occurrence of script tag using SimpleHtmlDom – PHP

I am using simple html dom to parse a link that contains two script tags with type=application/ld+json.

The target website structure is like below,

// tag that I want to parse
<script type="application/ld+json">
Some JSON Data
</script>


// tag that I **do not want** to parse
<script type="application/ld+json">
Some JSON Data
</script>

Now as I showed above I just want to parse the data inside the first , For this I am using following code

foreach($html->find('script[type="application/ld+json"]',0) as $name)
{
   echo $name->innertext;
}

As I am trying to extract the first occurrence of by specifying “0” in find() function but that give me the following error.

Trying to get property of non-object in C:xampphtdocshtmldomexampleexample_basic_selector.php on line 14

Anyone knows what I am doing wrong or how can I fix this? Thanks

Answer

If you specify the index of the instance you want, you only get that element back and not a list, so the loop isn’t required (in fact is the problem)…

$json = $html->find('script[type="application/ld+json"]',0);
echo $json->innertext;

Just for reference, the code from find()…

    // return nth-element or array
    if (is_null($idx)) return $found;
    else if ($idx<0) $idx = count($found) + $idx;
    return (isset($found[$idx])) ? $found[$idx] : null;