mjorgens / web-crawler

This is a PHP library that takes a starting URL and then parses the page Html and extracts the URLs. It then follows the URL and parses those pages until the max number of URLs is reached.

Web Crawler for PHP

This is a PHP library that takes a starting URL and then parses the page Html and extracts the URLs. It then follows the URL and parses those pages until the max number of URLs is reached.

Requirements

Installation

The recommended way to install this library is through Composer.

composer require mjorgens/web-crawler

Usage

$repository = new \Mjorgens\Crawler\CrawledRepository\CrawledMemoryRepository(); // The collection of pages
$url = new Uri('https://example.com'); // Starting url
$maxUrls = 5; // Max number of urls to crawl

Crawler::create()
            ->setRepository($repository)
            ->setMaxCrawl($maxUrls)
            ->startCrawling($url); // Start the crawler

foreach ($repository as $page){
    echo $page->url;
    echo $page->html;
}