PHP cURL Web Scraping: The Complete Working Guide

Most PHP cURL scraping tutorials show you two functions, a screenshot of some output, and call it a day. This guide covers what actually happens on real websites: proper request setup, HTML parsing without regex, error handling, and pagination. Full guide with MySQL storage, cookies, rate limiting, and avoiding blocks: phpspiderblog.com Making a Proper cURL Request The bare minimum most tutorials show: $ch = curl_init (); curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_URL , "https://books.toscrape.com/" ); curl_se