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Roach is a complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. It is heavily inspired by the popular Scrapy package for Python.
Roach allows us to define spiders that crawl and scrape web documents. Roach isn’t just a simple crawler, but includes an entire pipeline to clean, persist and otherwise process extracted data as well.
Just like scrapy, Roach supports: - Middlewares - Item Pipelines - Extendibility through Plugins
It’s your all-in-one resource for web scraping in PHP.
ScrapydWeb is a web-based management tool for the Scrapyd service. It is built using the Python Flask framework and allows you to easily manage and monitor your Scrapy spider projects through a web interface.
ScrapydWeb allows you to view the status of your running spiders, view the logs of completed spiders, schedule new spider runs, and manage spider settings and configurations.
ScrapydWeb provides a simple way to manage your scraping tasks and allows you to schedule and run multiple spiders simultaneously. It also provides a user-friendly web interface that makes it easy to view the status of your spiders and monitor their progress.
You can install the package via pip by running pip install scrapydweb and then you can run the package by
running scrapydweb command in your command prompt.
It will start a web server that you can access through your web browser at http://localhost:6800/
You will need to have Scrapyd running in order to use ScrapydWeb,
Scrapyd is a service for running Scrapy spiders, it allows you to schedule spiders to run at regular intervals
and also allows you to run spiders on remote machines.
Example Use
<?php
use RoachPHP\Http\Response;
use RoachPHP\Spider\BasicSpider;
class RoachDocsSpider extends BasicSpider
{
/**
* @var string[]
*/
public array $startUrls = [
'https://roach-php.dev/docs/spiders'
];
public function parse(Response $response): \Generator
{
$title = $response->filter('h1')->text();
$subtitle = $response
->filter('main > div:nth-child(2) p:first-of-type')
->text();
yield $this->item([
'title' => $title,
'subtitle' => $subtitle,
]);
}
}