Scraping and Automation

[jason06]

Hey There!

Basically, I want to make a project/website in PHP that can scrape data from other websites without using an API. I would like to know if it is possible to do this type of programming in PHP. My final year project will be a PHP project that focuses on automation and that I wish to do in PHP. Would anyone please guide me in this regard.

Thanks.

 

[MeMate]

Google for curl or file_get_contents to read a whole site as string. Works only with loaded parsed content. Some sites nowadays use AJAX to prevent automated reading.

 

[jason06]

It was great to hear from you. I will do some research on it, and let you know if I need any additional assistance