gavinggordon/sorcerer

An easy-to-use PHP class for scraping webpages' source code.

Sorcerer

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Description

An easy-to-use PHP class for scraping webpages' source code., _(*2)

Usage

Installation

    $ composer require gavinggordon/sorcerer

Examples

Insantiation

``` php include( 'vendor/autoload.php' );, <sub>(*3)</sub>

use GGG\Http\Data\Collection\Sorcerer as Sorcerer;

$scraper = new Sorcerer();

#### Configuration

``` php
    $url = 'http://www.testurl.com/index.php';

    $regexes = [
        '/\<a\s?[^\>]+?\>(.+)\<\/a\>/i',
        '/\<img\s?([^\>]+?)[\s\/]*?\>/i'
    ];

    $savefile = __DIR__ . './testurl-scrapedata.txt';

    $scraper->configure( $url, $regexes, $savefile );

Run

If no filepath was set for "$savefile",..., <sub>(*4)</sub>

    $data = $scraper->scrape();

    print_r( $data );

...the scraped data will be returned., <sub>(*5)</sub>

If a filepath was set for "$savefile",..., <sub>(*6)</sub>

    $scraper->scrape();

...the scraped data will be saved to the file which you specified., <sub>(*7)</sub>

Issues

If you have any issues at all, please post your findings in the issues page at https://github.com/gavinggordon/sorcerer/issues., <sub>(*8)</sub>

License

This package utilizes the MIT License., <sub>(*9)</sub>