Title says it all really, I need a library that allows me to quickly get data out of a HTML page without having to fully implement downloading, redirects, etc. in detail.
Any suggestions?
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I would check out Goutte, a simple PHP Web Scraper.
Goutte is a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP.
Goutte provides a nice API to crawl websites and extract data from the HTML/XML responses.
file_get_contents()when you pass it the rightcontext. For parsing, you can use the DOM functionality easily (provided the document is not too crappy). I'm doing that for many things, and it's usually just a few lines of code (depending on the amount of data entities to retrieve).