Announcing the Future Launch of the “SpyderSchool”

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 [...]

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 [...]

Scraping Websites With cURL

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 [...]