This class enables you to establish a spider, and then call one page at a time.
Methods available:
spiderStart($strStartPage)
spiderNextPage()
getPage($pageToGet)
getLinks($strURL="", $strPageContents, $strScrapeRegExp="")
Note that:
getPage and getLinks can be used 'standalone' without a spider....
... But the main use of the class is along the lines of:
open a new object:
$objXXX = new spiderScraper;
[note; this doesn't start the spider; instead it allows you to access methods which do start the spider, as well as other methods such as link scraping or page fetching]
then start the spider
$objXXX -> spiderStart($strStartURL);
set the regexps for the spider [see example for use]:
$objSportSpider -> arrLinksRegex = $arrLinksRegex;
set the spider's [max] depth:
objSportSpider -> intCrawlDepth = 4;
then call pages one at a time:
for ($i = 1; $i <= 250; $i++) {
$arrFetchedPage = $objSportSpider -> spiderNextPage();
}
SEE EXAMPLES AND SCRIPT COMMENTS FOR FULL USAGE |