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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