extract titles wordpress

[samcarson]

What is the best method to extract the titles of all the posts on a wordpress blog? Is this even possible?

Thanks

Sam

[yukon]

Originally Posted by samcarson

What is the best method to extract the titles of all the posts on a wordpress blog? Is this even possible?

Thanks

Sam

This code will get you all of your Wordpress Post Titles, as text.

PHP Code:

<?php
require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('&showposts=-1&order=DSC');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<br />
<?php endwhile; ?>

[yukon]

This 2nd code snippet will return all the Wordpress Post Titles (same as above), & also include a clickable hyperlink for each individual Post.

PHP Code:

 
<?php
require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('&showposts=-1&order=DSC');
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<br />
<?php endwhile; ?>

[samcarson]

yukon, thanks a lot for that code.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by samcarson

yukon, thanks a lot for that code.

Anytime.

If you want to reverse the order your Post Titles are displayed, change this.

query_posts('&showposts=-1&order=DSC');

To this:

query_posts('&showposts=-1&order=ASC');

[samcarson]

Thanks again.

What if I wanted the titles of all posts on a blog that is not mine? URL is all I have

[yukon]

Scraping html from external sites is more involved than the small code snippets above.

This link here might help? I havn't tried the tutorial in the link, still it looks like like it might work.

If you don't have a lot of URLs/Titles, you could always hard code them. You would have to keep the list updated manually.

[samcarson]

Thanks again. I will try it.