Php Web Scraper Its Hard?

Php Web Scraper

Assalamualaikom and Good Day everyone.

Did you know about PHP Web Scraper?

Web Scraper is my favorite technology involving PHP server coding. Its very interesting stuff to explore. Today i will explain a simplified overview of how data gets to and from the web browser to our php applications.

Web Scraping

The flow of process starting by copying any site html pages and then filtering or extracting with several php parsing techniques.

To grab any page we can use Curl (its my priority), HTTP stream socket, or others library like Snoopy. I always prefer using Curl due its user friendly functioning and faster. 

To extract any portion of html, text or any element of scraped site we need a better php libraries such as php SimpleDom, PHPQuery or as simple DomXpath. Using common ordinary regex and string manipulation will take lots of time to coded.

Next post i will show you several technique to using Curl as web grabber.

Good Luck!

Lesson To PHP Web Scraping