Borate Sameer. A Practical Guide to Web Scraping

Sameer Borate 2013. — 107 p.This book is a practical, pragmatic and lightweight guide to web scraping for PHP developers.Web Scraping - getting a program to capture information from online sources - is one of the most powerful techniques for grabbing content without a browser.Web Scraping Defined
Reasons To Scrape
Legality Of Web Scraping
Http Overview
Your Scraping Toolbox
Simplehtmldom In Detail
Authenticated Sites
Regular Expressions: A Quick Introduction
A Practical Guide To Web Scraping
JavaScript And The Rise Of Ajax
PhantomJS
Get Character Encoding For A Web Page
Grabbing Website Favicons
Scrape Google Search Results
Get Alexa Global Site Rank
Scraping A Page With Http Authentication
Logging To Wordpress Admin And Grabbing Content.
Getting All The Image Urls From A Page
Saving All The Images From A Page To A Directory
A Simple Curl Session
Http Status Codes