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phpscraper

583 2 28 GPL-3.0-or-later
3.0.0 (9 Apr 2024) May 04 2020 104 (month)

PHPScraper is a universal web-util for PHP. The main goal is to get stuff done instead of getting distracted with selectors, preparing & converting data structures, etc. Instead, you can just go to a website and get the relevant information for your project.

PHPScraper is a minimalistic scraper framework that is built on top of other popular scraping tools.

Features:

  • Direct access to page basic features like: Meta data, Links, Images, Headings, Content, Keywords etc.
  • File downloading.
  • RSS, Sitemap and other feed processing.
  • CSV, XML and JSON file processing.

Example Use


```javascript // create scraper object $web = new \Spekulatius\PHPScraper\PHPScraper; // go to URL $web->go('https://test-pages.phpscraper.de/content/selectors.html');

// elements can be found using XPath: echo $web->filter("//*[@id='by-id']")->text(); // "Content by ID"

// or pre-defined variables covering basic page data: $web->links; // for all links $web->headings; $web->images; $web->contentKeywords; $web->orderedLists; $web->unorderedLists; $web->paragraphs; $web->outline; // basic page outline $web->cleanOutlineWithParagraphs; // basic page outline ```

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