Posted on January 30, 2009 by spyderwebtech
I want to thank everyone who left a comment, emailed me, and even took the time to track me down and give me a phone call about starting this project. It seems as if there is a real need for this subject and to my knowledge there is yet to be a definitive source of [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by spyderwebtech
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 [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by spyderwebtech
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 [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by spyderwebtech
Web Page Scraping is a hot topic of discussion around the Internet as more and more people are looking to create applications that pull data in from many different data sources and websites.
In my other tutorials, I talked about using PHP’s file_get_contents function to pull a web page and download the information into a variable [...]
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