Build Your Own Image Scraper with PHP
There are various ways to scrape information from other websites, including JSON and RSS. However, it's also possible to build a scraper using PHP.
With regular expressions you can extract portions of content such as images, text and metadata.
Why would you do this? In one example, I build a WordPress site that automatically generate new posts every day by crawling the content of my Facebook page.
In this post, I'll share with you the code to extract images from a URL by using the file_get_contents() and preg_match_all() functions.
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With regular expressions you can extract portions of content such as images, text and metadata.
Why would you do this? In one example, I build a WordPress site that automatically generate new posts every day by crawling the content of my Facebook page.
In this post, I'll share with you the code to extract images from a URL by using the file_get_contents() and preg_match_all() functions.
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