phpscraper/phpscraper

PHP based powerful scraper and web automation library

0.1.6-beta 2017-09-11 10:35 UTC

Requires

• curl/curl: ^1.7
• emanueleminotto/simple-html-dom: ^1.5

GPL

• Sukanta Paul

README

PHPScraper is a jQuery like object oriented php scraper and web automation library.

If you are familiar with jQuery syntax, it will be a breeze for you to request a page, click on a link, process selected elements together and so on. If you have questions or problems with installation or usage create an Issue.

Installation:

Currently PHPScraper in in beta. If you are using composer, you must set minimum-stability to dev. to get latest version. It is still not ready to use in production.

If you have composer installed run command:

composer require phpscraper/phpscraper

Or if you prefer to add it manually using composer.json add this:

"phpscraper/phpscraper": "*"

This will install the latest version (currently: v0.1.6-beta) of PHPScraper into your project.

Usage examples:

$engine = new \PHPScraper\Engine();
$engine->get('https://www.example.com/', NULL, function( $headers, $body ) {
    $body->find('a.some-link')->click(function ($headers, $body) {
        echo $body;
        // Do whatever you want to do
    });
});

Contribution

If you want to contribute, feel free to fork, update and ask for pull request. Thank you.

Licence:

The source code is licensed under GPLv3.