Creating Web Scrapers

Tim Bond

Seattle PHP Meetup - July 11, 2017

What is a ?

Often a combination of two or more

<body>
<div>Irrelevant data</div>
<!-- Details -->
<div>Important data</div>
<!-- Details End -->
</body>

$html = explode('<!-- Details -->', $html)[1];

$html = explode('<!-- Details End -->', $html)[0];

<div>
    <ul>
        <li>One</li>
        <li>Two</li>
        <li>Three</li>
    </ul>
</div>

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
foreach($xml->ul->li as $li) {
    echo "$li\n";
}

Packet Capture

for Android

By Tim Bond

Seattle PHP Meetup - July 11, 2017