Can PHP do this?

[Dirt_Diver]

I was wondering if PHP could search for data in the source of another webpage?

For example, I have an excel macro that searches for a list of names and some other information in the html source of a web page that I tell it too. To make things even easier for me I was wondering if PHP could do this?

Does anyone know???

[boogyman]

you can use exec() (http://php.net/exec), however that is a very powerful function and you should look at it.