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SkyCaiji is an open source web scraping and data collection system designed to gather information from websites through configurable extraction rules. It focuses on simplifying the process of building crawlers by allowing users to visually define scraping rules rather than writing complex code. It can collect structured or unstructured data from many types of webpages and automate the extraction process for large datasets. SkyCaiji is designed to run on a variety of hosting environments including local machines, shared hosting environments, and cloud servers. ...

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. ...

...PHPScraper can assist in collecting feeds such as RSS feeds, sitemap.xml-entries and static search indexes. This can be useful when deciding on the next page to crawl or building up a list of pages on a website.