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Informations about the package web-scraping-sdk

Web Scraping PHP SDK

This is a composer package that simplifies web content scraping providing a lightweight and easy to use code base.

Simply extend the Scraper class provided and implement the gather() method to extract the desired content using xpaths. You can then output this content to a file, store in a database, return a json string, etc.

Highlights:

Packagist link: https://packagist.org/packages/daa/web-scraping-sdk

Usage

Add the following requirement to your composer file and do a composer install/update:

Write your own scraper class which extends Scraper\Sdk\WebScraper and implements the gather method:

Now call your class, for example from a script that is executed by a cron job:

With troublesome sources you can specify the retry configuration (default is 3 retries with a 3 second pause in between)

You can use the same instance to scrape several urls with the same structure:

Check out the examples folder for more details and fully working examples.

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Requires php Version >=5.3.3
ext-curl Version *
daa/restful-curl-php-wrapper Version 1.*
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