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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...

This is the Laravel adapter for Roach, the complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. Easily integrate Roach into any Laravel application. The Laravel adapter mostly provides the necessary container bindings for the various services Roach uses, as well as making certain configuration options available via a config file. The Laravel adapter of Roach registers a few Artisan commands to make out development experience as pleasant as possible. Roach ships with an interactive shell (often called...

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...

PGbuild is a Phonegap development system that automates the development process by connecting your CMS/web server with the online service [Phonegap Build](http://build.phonegap.com). PGBuild is essentially a web spider that make off-line versions of web pages. The off-line version is zippped and send to the Phonegap Build service. The spider is controlled by a project file that sets the rules for the spider and the options for the phonebap build service. You may create and manage...

PHP web API designed to simplify object handling(loading, saving, querying, displaying, and editing), abstract the data from its display structure, and layout and allow the target data to be delivered to any supported format without special logic.

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...

studiMaps is a web based application for visualization and analysis of social networks. It consists of two software components: a web-crawler for getting data and the web based application for visualization.