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this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte II In the last article, we got introduced to web scraping and we looked into Goutte, a wonderful PHP web scraping library . In this article, we would be putting our knowledge to practice by scraping the website of the Punch . To be more specific, we would be scraping the punch to get the lastest news https://punchng....

this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte Today I would be talking about something very common, Web Scraping. Depending on your needs or a client’s needs, situations may arise when you may need to extract data from a webpage. What is Web Scraping ? According to WebHarvy, Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.) is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites....