Class: Spider Class (spider, crawler, regular expressions)

Name:	Spider Class Support forum
Base name:	`spiderclass`
Description:	Crawl a site following and retrieving linked pages
Search tags:	spider, crawler, regular expressions
Version:	`-`
Required PHP version:	`-`
License:	GNU General Public License (GPL)
All time users:	3745 users
All time rank:	366
Week users:	21 users
Week rank:	252

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This class can retrieve Web pages and parse them to extract the list of their links to continue crawling all linked pages.

The pages may be retrieved iteratively until it is reached a given limit of pages or link depth.

It is possible to set regular expressions for both link definitions and content matches, changeable at every depth.

User ratings:

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Sufficient (65.0%)`	`Sufficient (70.0%)`	`Not sure (55.0%)`	`Not sure (50.0%)`	`-`	`-`	`Not sure (50.0%)`	1131
Month:	Not yet rated by the users

Applications that use this class:

Link Description

mytube retrieves performance data from london underground ("the tube")

mytube2 Data on performance of London Underground

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Files:

File	Role	Description
`overview.txt`	Doc.	Overview for spiderClass.php
`spiderClass.php`	Class	spiderClass source file
`spiderExamp.php`	Example	Example usage - NOTE: BE KIND TO THE BBC AND DO NOT RUN THIS WITHOUT CHANGING THE PARAMETERS

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