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This library provides kind of a framework and a lot of ready-to-use, so-called steps, that you can use as building blocks, to build your own crawlers and scrapers with. Before diving into the library, let's have a look at the terms crawling and scraping. For most real-world use cases, those two things go hand in hand, which is why this library helps with and combines both. A (web) crawler is a program that (down)loads documents and follows the links in it to load them as well. A crawler...

Roach is a complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. It is a shameless clone heavily inspired by the popular Scrapy package for Python. Roach allows us to define spiders that crawl and scrape web documents. But wait, there’s more. Roach isn’t just a simple crawler, but includes an entire pipeline to clean, persist and otherwise process extracted data as well. It’s your all-in-one resource for web scraping in PHP.

QueryList is an extensible PHP web scraping and crawling framework designed to extract and process data from web pages. It provides a simple and expressive API that allows developers to collect structured information from HTML documents using familiar DOM traversal techniques. It is built on top of phpQuery and uses CSS3 selectors similar to those found in jQuery, making it easy for developers to query and manipulate page elements during scraping tasks.