Scraping Google Web Search using ScraperAPI in PHP

1 · Amit Merchant · May 10, 2024, 5:37 a.m.
Scraping data on the web is a tiresome process when you do things manually. For instance, if you happen to do it using PHP, you need to do the following steps. Get website content using the file_get_contents() function Parse the content using the DOMDocument class Then load the data using the loadHTML() function Finally, traverse the DOM tree using the getElementsByTagName() function While this works, this is a tedious process and it’s not very efficient. It’s also prone to errors if the DOM t...