Extract website

1. Introduction

Introduction

2. API vs Scraping

1 What is Scraping

2 What is API

3 API vs Scraping

3. Fetching Data

1 Reading Local File or Remote Page to Extract

2 Curl usage in PHP

3 Hide Yourself from Remote Server with CURL

4 Fetch Data over HTTPS with CURL

5 Cookie, Encoding, and Custom headers with CURL

6 Converting Fetched Data to JSON

4. Data Extraction

1 Defining and Seeking Pattern Blocks in HTML

2 What is REGEX Why We Need

3 Usage of preg_match() function

4 Usage of preg_match_all() function

5 Example 1 Exploring patterns and Extracting Data From Local HTML File

6 Example 2 Exploring patterns and Extracting Data with file_get_content()

7 Example 3 Exploring patterns and Extracting Data with CURL

5. Cron Jobs

1 Cron Jobs in Linux

2 Single Instance at Linux

6. Bonus

1 Two services for your quick scraping needs