Requirement

• php5
• php5-curl extension
• php5-json extension (already included with php5)

Features

• Extract Data from any http resource
• Use simple regular expression to extract data
• Hassle free http transaction
• Supports cookie (via curl)
• Can cache http response

Usage

<?php 
// include libraries. 
require 'WebGet.php';
require 'ExtractorFactory.php';


// initialize webget lib
$wget = new WebGet();

// fetch the content
$content = $wget->requestContent("http://some.domain.com/folder/file.ext");

// initialize regular expression powered extractor
$dx = ExtractorFactory::create('regex', $content);

// setup search pattern
$dx->a_pattern_name = '/regular-expression/';
$dx->another_pattern_name = '/another-regular-expression/';

// extract all the data
$data = $dx->extract();

print_r($data);


// initialize xpath powered extractor
$dx = ExtractorFactory::create('html-xpath', $content);

// search pattern
$dx->data_name = '//some/xpath';
$dx->other_name = '//other/xpath/expression';

// extract
$data = $dx->extract();

print_r($data);
?>

Also check the example.php file.