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Web Scraping with PHP: Extracting Data from the Web: Learn ethical data extraction, dynamic content handling, and data storage for real-world projects with PHP, cURL, DOM,

Web Scraping with PHP: Extracting Data from the Web: Learn ethical data extraction, dynamic content handling, and data storage for real-world projects with PHP, cURL, DOM,


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What You Will Learn in This Book Master the fundamentals of web scraping, including its definition, common applications, and how PHP fits into the web scraping ecosystem. Set up your complete PHP development environment with essential tools like Composer, cURL, and DOM extensions. Understand the core technologies of the web (HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, CSS selectors, JavaScript) to effectively target and extract data from any webpage. Navigate the ethical and legal landscape of web scraping, learning to respect robots.txt files, avoid server overload, and adhere to data privacy and copyright laws. Perform basic and advanced web requests using PHP's cURL extension, including handling GET/POST requests, custom headers, cookies, and secure HTTPS connections. Parse and extract data from HTML documents using PHP's native DOMDocument and DOMXPath, precisely locating information with CSS selectors and XPath queries. Simplify your scraping tasks with the Goutte library, leveraging its powerful features for making requests, traversing the DOM, interacting with forms, and clicking links. Develop strategies to scrape dynamic, JavaScript-rendered content, including reverse engineering AJAX calls and understanding when to use headless browsers. Implement advanced scraping techniques such as handling user authentication, managing proxies for IP rotation, and spoofing user agents to avoid detection. Clean and refine extracted data, converting data types and handling missing or inconsistent information for practical use. Store your scraped data efficiently in various formats, including CSV, JSON, and relational databases like SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB. Design and build robust, modular, and maintainable web scrapers using best practices like error handling, logging, and version control with Git. Apply your skills to real-world scenarios through practical case studies, demonstrating how to scrape e-commerce product information, news articles, and data behind logins. Understand common anti-scraping techniques employed by websites and learn strategies for adapting your scrapers to evolving web environments.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798289600189
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 190
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Extracting Data from the Web: Learn ethical data extraction, dynamic content handling, and data storage for real-world projects with PHP, cURL, DOM,
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8289600186
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 455 gr


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