Web Scraping with RoachPHP - Sample Code

This repository contains the sample code for the article Web Scraping with RoachPHP. In the article, we explore the basics of web scraping with PHP and RoachPHP, a powerful web scraping toolkit for PHP.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Prerequisites
• Usage
• File Structure
• Contributing

Getting Started

If you're interested in web scraping with PHP or want to follow along with the article, you can clone this repository to your local machine.

Prerequisites

To run the code, you need:

• PHP installed on your system
• Composer installed (for managing dependencies)
• A basic understanding of PHP

Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/web-scraping-with-roachphp.git

2. Change into the project directory:

   cd web-scraping-with-roachphp

3. Install dependencies using Composer:

   composer install

4. Run the web scraping script:

   php index.php

5. Check the output in the output directory.

File Structure

The file structure of this project is as follows:

web-scraping-with-roachphp/
├── src/
│   ├── Spiders/
│   │   ├── ImdbTopMoviesSpider.php
│   │   ├── OpenLibrarySpider.php
│   ├── Processors/
│   │   ├── CleanMovieTitle.php
├── output/
│   ├── trending-books.json
│   ├── top-movies.json
├── index.php
├── composer.json
├── README.md

• The src/Spiders/ directory contains spider classes for web scraping.
• The src/Processors/ directory contains item processors for data post-processing.
• The output/ directory stores the scraped data in JSON format.
• index.php is the entry point of the script.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute or improve this code, feel free to open a pull request. Your contributions are welcome!