Open Source PHP Web Scrapers

Blackfire Player is a powerful Web Crawling, Web Testing, and Web Scraper application. It provides a nice DSL to crawl HTTP services, assert responses, and extract data from HTML/XML/JSON responses. Some Blackfire Player use cases: Crawl a website/API and check expectations -- aka Acceptance Tests; Scrape a website/API and extract values; Monitor a website; Test code with unit test integration (PHPUnit, Behat, Codeception, ...); Test code behavior from the outside thanks to the native Blackfire Profiler integration -- aka Unit Tests from the HTTP layer (tm). Blackfire Player executes scenarios written in a special DSL (files should end with .bkf).

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. Goutte depends on PHP 7.1+. Add fabpot/goutte as a require dependency in your composer.json file. Create a Goutte Client instance (which extends Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\HttpBrowser). Make requests with the request() method. The method returns a Crawler object (Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler). To use your own HTTP settings, you may create and pass an HttpClient instance to Goutte. For example, to add a 60 second request timeout. Read the documentation of the BrowserKit, DomCrawler, and HttpClient Symfony Components for more information about what you can do with Goutte. Goutte is a thin wrapper around the following Symfony Components: BrowserKit, CssSelector, DomCrawler, and HttpClient.

PHP web API designed to simplify object handling(loading, saving, querying, displaying, and editing), abstract the data from its display structure, and layout and allow the target data to be delivered to any supported format without special logic.