Posted on Thursday 8th of March 2007 at 12:07 in Tutorials

Scraping website content with PHP using Curl

I've been building a side project that just so happens to need this functionality so thought I'd document it on the site as I go.

The function below takes a URL and connects to it and returns all the contents.

How do I use it?
See the code below for an example implementation of the function.

$content will then become the full HTML of the page, so outputting it will replicate the page in it's entirety. Do with it what you will.

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