build PHP url parser scraper

Question

i want to know what and how these websites get all the info from just pasting the link inside a form

i want to build something similiar

a user paste a URL inside the form and a script runs to get all the information

https://www.lynks.com/en/eg/pricing

https://www.edfa3ly.co/cart

i know the question is very vague but i can't find any info how to get the info from amazon or other websites, i know that i can use amazon aff API somehow, but for everything else how can i do that?

You could process download the page via PHP.

Neil
– Neil

2017-04-07 23:27:21 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2017 at 23:27 — Neil
– Neil, Commented Apr 7, 2017 at 23:27

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:02:11Z

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Well you can start by downloading the page in PHP with curl.

$ch = curl_init('http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1
));
$result = curl_exec($ch);

Then use regular expressions, an HTML parser or the like to find the data you're looking for.

Looks like this question was also already answered here: how to use CURL and PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser with object

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:02

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