How to Scrap Data from A Website Using PHP

Data scraping is a technique that you can scrap any static or dynamic data from any website using the curl function. CURL is a library that you can connect with the server with many different types of protocols. This is the one way to get data to your website from another website.

For example, you can scrape data from websites to get car information details, price, etc. The point is, once the website data in your hands, you can do whatever you want.

Use the below code to fulfill your requirement:


<?php
///BEFORE USING THIS BE SURE IF CURL IS ENABLED OR NOT///
	$crl = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_URL, $url_of_website);
	curl_setopt($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$geturldata = curl_exec($crl);
	curl_close($crl);
	$start = strpos($geturldata, '<h2 class="latest_video">Latest Video</h2>');
	$end = strpos($geturldata, '</div>', $start);
	$lengthofstring = $end-$start;
	$output = substr($geturldata, $start, $lengthofstring);
	echo $output;
?>