Goutte, a simple PHP Web Scraper
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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.
Requirements
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Goutte depends on PHP 5.4+ and Guzzle 4+.
.. tip::
If you need support for PHP 5.3 or Guzzle 3, use Goutte 1.0.6.
Installation
------------
Add ``fabpot/goutte`` as a require dependency in your ``composer.json`` file:
.. code-block:: bash
php composer.phar require fabpot/goutte:~2.0
.. tip::
You can also download the `Goutte.phar`_ file:
.. code-block:: php
require_once '/path/to/goutte.phar';
Usage
-----
Create a Goutte Client instance (which extends
``Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\Client``):
.. code-block:: php
use Goutte\Client;
$client = new Client();
Make requests with the ``request()`` method:
.. code-block:: php
// Go to the symfony.com website
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'http://www.symfony.com/blog/');
The method returns a ``Crawler`` object
(``Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler``).
Fine-tune cURL options:
.. code-block:: php
$client->getClient()->setDefaultOption('config/curl/'.CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
Click on links:
.. code-block:: php
// Click on the "Security Advisories" link
$link = $crawler->selectLink('Security Advisories')->link();
$crawler = $client->click($link);
Extract data:
.. code-block:: php
// Get the latest post in this category and display the titles
$crawler->filter('h2.post > a')->each(function ($node) {
print $node->text()."\n";
});
Submit forms:
.. code-block:: php
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'http://github.com/');
$crawler = $client->click($crawler->selectLink('Sign in')->link());
$form = $crawler->selectButton('Sign in')->form();
$crawler = $client->submit($form, array('login' => 'fabpot', 'password' => 'xxxxxx'));
$crawler->filter('.flash-error')->each(function ($node) {
print $node->text()."\n";
});
More Information
----------------
Read the documentation of the BrowserKit and DomCrawler Symfony Components for
more information about what you can do with Goutte.
Technical Information
---------------------
Goutte is a thin wrapper around the following fine PHP libraries:
* Symfony Components: BrowserKit, CssSelector and DomCrawler;
* `Guzzle`_ HTTP Component.
License
-------
Goutte is licensed under the MIT license.
.. _`Composer`: http://getcomposer.org
.. _`Goutte.phar`: http://get.sensiolabs.org/goutte.phar
.. _`Guzzle`: http://docs.guzzlephp.org
