Creating Quick Scrapers Using Xpather, Snoopy & PHP
I’ve been working on a bunch of review sites, and because of this I’ve had to gather some data from websites – mostly stuff that’s not included in the data feeds that I’m using and wanted to compliment my information with some additional specifications for my users to check out items this coming holiday season, with ease, and hopefully make them click happy for purchasing J I started out reading a bunch of tutorials on using Curl and PHP to scrape and even built a little scraper that worked fucking awesome for the page I created it for, it had 21 regex’s, and used a bunch of curl lines to connect and grab the information I needed....