PHP - Website Data Scraping Tutorial

by vick2011 Posted: 15 years ago 10 replies

PHP - Website Data Scraping Tutorial

When I started out in PHP this was one of the most important skills to have, because with this skill you can generate some good income writing useful scripts and web applications, so after being emailed and pm'd about 100000 times about help etc I had to delete one email address because it was overly spammed I decided to write a small tutorial on my programming forum.

How to Scrape Specific Information from a Website using PHP - PHP Tutorials - Tutorials - CoderzSpot - A Programmers/Coders Forum
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DEaFeYe Banned 15 years ago

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- mojojuju 15 years ago
  
  Sometimes what is most powerful is much more than what is required.
  
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- CyberSEO 15 years ago
  
  Why? PHP has Perl-Compatible regular expressions function set which is more than enough to write parsers (scrappers) of any complexity.
DEaFeYe Banned 15 years ago

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- mojojuju 15 years ago
  
  It's grossly inaccurate to compare the use of PHP for parsing information to the use of a saw to pound nails into wood.
  
  Also, denouncing the use of PHP for such a trivial task simply because PHP is not best known for its regular expression features is in my opinion a dogmatic stance to take.
mojojuju 15 years ago

Ok then. I didn't know if you were being hyperbolic or if you just had no idea.

But you applied that analogy to a situation where there is no singular proper tool, and one where it would be difficult or silly to call any tool improper. You could accomplish this in PHP, perl, python, bash or whatever and at the end of the day it will not matter. Anything that is pragmatic is probably a proper tool.
wasabi20 15 years ago

Good tutorial for newbies !
Thomas 15 years ago

There's nothing to read; it's a parked page.
jassparker2015 Banned 15 years ago

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wasabi20 15 years ago

Yes the page are down now,
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- vandalais 15 years ago
  
  I also got a parked page. Does anyone have a link to how to scrap a site for a specific topic? If there is a WordPress plugin, that would be even better.
  
  Thanks,
  Keith
SeeSharp 15 years ago

Just use google cache to see the contents of that site, still works.

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PHP - Website Data Scraping Tutorial

vick2011 • 15 years ago • 10 replies

PHP - Website Data Scraping Tutorial When I started out in PHP this was one of the most important skills to have, because with this skill you can generate some good income writing useful scripts and web applications, so after being emailed and pm'd about 100000 times about help etc I had to delete one email address because it was overly spammed I decided to write a small tutorial on my programming forum.