How do you scrape websites using PHP?

Answer 1

You use file_get_contents to fetch the website HTML and regular expressions to get what you need from that.

eg:

$html = file_get_contents('http://www.yoursite.com');

preg_match_all(<regular expression here>, $html, $matches);

print_r($matches); // this will contain what you need

If you require cookies or special http headers, you might want to look at cUrl functions in stead of file_get_contents.