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Learn how to automate the Web with PHP.Are you integrating with another web site but an API is not available? Does their API not provide what you need? Web scraping is a time-honored technique for collecting the information you need from a web page. In this book, you’ll learn the various tools and libraries available in PHP to retrieve, parse, and extract data from HTML.The Web has come a long way in the last ten years. Web Scraping with PHP, 2nd Edition includes updates to the techniques of the first edition to account for modern PHP 7 based libraries written to more easily interact with web data. Whether you use plain PHP with cURL or a popular framework like Zend Framework or Symfony, this book is full of examples showing how to use the classes and functions available. Topics covered

"Modern, efficient, and secure techniques for PHP professionals"--Cover.

Despite all the advancements in web APIs and interoperability, it's inevitable that, at some point in your career, you will have to "scrape" content from a website that was not built with web services in mind. And, despite its sometimes less-than-stellar reputation, web scraping is usually an entire legitimate activity-for example, to capture data from an old version of a website for insertion into a modern CMS. This book, written by scraping expert Matthew Turland, covers web scraping techniques and topics that range from the simple to exotic using a variety of technologies and · Understanding HTTP requests · The PHP HTTP streams wrapper · cURL · pecl_http · · Zend_Http_Client · Building your own scraping library · Using Tidy · Analyzing code with the DOM, SimpleXML and XMLReader extensions · CSS selector libraries · PCRE pattern matching · Tips and Tricks · Multiprocessing / parallel processing