You can scrape tables with
DOM Crawler
by combining the regular
CSS selectors
with the
filter
and each methods to iterate over the rows and cells of the table.
Here is some sample code that demonstrates how to scrape a simple HTML table using DOM Crawler:
use SymfonyComponentDomCrawlerCrawler;
$html = <<<EOD
Name
Age
Occupation
Yasoob
35
Software Engineer
Pierre
28
Product Manager
EOD;
// Load the HTML document
$crawler = new Crawler($html);
// Find the table element
$table = $crawler->filter('table')->first();
// Loop over the rows of the table
$table->filter('tr')->each(function ($row, $i) {
// Loop over the columns of the row
$row->filter('td')->each(function ($column, $j) {
// Print the text content of the column
echo $column->text() . PHP_EOL;
});
});
// Output:
// Yasoob
// 35
// Software Engineer
// Pierre
// 28
// Product Manager
