fabpot/goutte v4.0.3

Fabpot/Goutte is a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP, designed to create a friendly API for crawling websites and extracting data from HTML/XML responses. Please note this library has been deprecated, and as of v4, Goutte functions as a simple proxy to the HttpBrowser class from the Symfony BrowserKit component.

Fabpot/Goutte can be used in a variety of ways. Here's an example of how you can use it:

Firstly, you need to install the library. You can add fabpot/goutte as a required dependency in your composer.json file. To install it, use the following command:

composer require fabpot/goutte

Once the library is installed, you can create a Goutte\Client instance like this:

use Goutte\Client;

$client = new Client();

Make a request using the request() method like this:

$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'https://www.symfony.com/blog/');

This returns a Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler object, which you can then use to extract data from a webpage. For instance, you can do something like this to get the text of all headers within 'h2 > a' tags on a page:

$crawler->filter('h2 > a')->each(function ($node) {
    print $node->text()."\n";
});

You can find the documentation for Fabpot/Goutte alongside the BrowserKit, DomCrawler, and HttpClient Symfony Components, since Goutte is a thin wrapper around these components. More information can be found on these respective pages: BrowserKit, DomCrawler, HttpClient.