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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...

Goutte is a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP. Goutte provides a nice API to crawl websites and extract data from the HTML/XML responses. Goutte depends on PHP 7.1+. Add fabpot/goutte as a require dependency in your composer.json file. Create a Goutte Client instance (which extends Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\HttpBrowser). Make requests with the request() method. The method returns a Crawler object (Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler). To use your own HTTP settings, you may...

The ultimate customiseable YAML-ised Web Scraper for PHP

Blackfire Player is a powerful Web Crawling, Web Testing, and Web Scraper application. It provides a nice DSL to crawl HTTP services, assert responses, and extract data from HTML/XML/JSON responses. Some Blackfire Player use cases: Crawl a website/API and check expectations -- aka Acceptance Tests; Scrape a website/API and extract values; Monitor a website; Test code with unit test integration (PHPUnit, Behat, Codeception, ...); Test code behavior from the outside thanks to the...