A PHP/JS web scraper

Simple CLI web application that scrapes and aggregates latest blog posts and shows them on the front page.

Please notice, that the app is in dev mode.

Some of the feature include:

• Dependencies managed through composer
• Options for date range and article limit

Dependencies

• PHP web server
• PHP >= 7.1
• MySQL >= 8.0

How to quickly setup

• Ensure you have composer installed

  • You can use composer (recommended) to create the project using composer create-project smweb/web-scrapper:dev-master myproject (rename {myproject} to any)
  • or download the project in zip format here and extract it to your http server.

• In the root folder, run composer install

• In the app/ folder, edit db_config.php for proper DB credentials

• After DB config edited, run command in the root folder php app/create_tables.php to create DB tables

• To scrap posts and save to DB run command in the root folder php app/scraper_cli.php --count "{count}" --startDate "{startDate}" --endDate "{endDate}" , where

  • {count} is articles count to scrap, integer // 10 by default
  • {startDate} is article's published min date
  • {endDate} is article's published max date
  • Date format: mm/dd/yyyy (example: 04/23/2021 )

• To view frontpage with scraped data, run command in the root folder php -S localhost:800 to start a server at the root folder. Frontpage can be accessed at localhost:800 .

Versioning

Project uses GitHub for versioning.