Instant PHP Web Scraping
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Short, concise recipes to learn a variety of useful web scraping techniques using PHP. This book is aimed at those new to web scraping, with little or no previous programming experience. Basic knowledge of HTML and the Web is useful, but not necessary
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9781299783850, 9781782164777, 9781782164760, 1299783856, 1782164774, 1782164766
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Instant Web Scraping with PHP; Preparing your development environment (Simple); Making a simple cURL request (Simple); Scraping elements using XPath (Simple); Custom scraping function (Simple); Scraping and saving images (Simple); Submitting a form using cURL (Intermediate); Traversing multiple pages (Intermediate); Saving scraped data to a database (Intermediate); Scheduling scrapes (Simple); Building a reusable scraping class (Advanced)