Have WordPress (or Apache) read a link in a file and use it as a link on a page?

codu

The subject describes the matter, I think. Using an API, I'm provided a link that changes often, that I need to serve in my WordPress blog. I can easily cron a wget to get me the file. The question is how I use the link contained in that file as a link that will autoupdate in WordPress?

If you don't know how to do it in WordPress, but you do in Apache, that might get me closer.

Very appreciated!

saqman2060

You are hosting your own wordpress blog located on a web server made using apache, I think?

Or, you have a website (wordpress), or a website sitting on a web server (apache)?

You have an API that you implement in the the blog or website that fetches a link to a file.

That file can be downloaded. There is another link in that file that changes automatically. You want that link applied to your blog which updates itself automatically. This is how I am interpreting your question. I could be wrong.

The title of this post says, pull a link from a file that has another link and embed that link in your site. Again, I could be wrong.

I am sure there is a script that you can use within HTML to perform this kind of action. I here javascript is in constant use. First we need to be clear on what you are asking.