Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 2

In Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial – Part 1, I demonstrated how to create a web spider class that uses the cURL library to transfer any type of data from the web direct to your server.
In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to parse that data into some sort of usable [...]

Scraping Web Pages with cURL Tutorial- Part 1

In my last post, Scraping Web Pages with cURL, I talked about what the cURL library can bring to the table and how we can use this library to create our own web spider class in PHP.
What I want to do in this tutorial is to show you how to use the cURL library to [...]

The WebSpyder School….

A Course on How to Scrape the Internet…Who is Interested??

This blog has really changed since the time I started it earlier this year. I am still working on my SEO empire and it is starting to pay off, but the majority of the traffic coming to this blog are people who are interested in [...]

Building A Web Spider – Part 1

Whether you want to gather data for a database web site, or determine which links are broken in your site a web spider is a great tool for getting repetitive tasks done. Scraping web pages from the internet is a great way to gather content and ideas for web sites that you want to [...]