A PHP Laravel Library for ScrapingBee

A PHP Laravel Package for ScrapingBee

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require ziming/laravel-scrapingbee

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ziming\LaravelScrapingBee\LaravelScrapingBeeServiceProvider" --tag="laravel-scrapingbee-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'api_key' => env('SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY'),
    'base_url' => env('SCRAPINGBEE_BASE_URL', 'https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/'),
    'timeout' => env('SCRAPINGBEE_TIMEOUT', 120),
];

Usage

The Generic ScrapingBee Client

$scrapingBeeClient = Ziming\LaravelScrapingBee\LaravelScrapingBee::make();

$response = $scrapingBeeClient->blockAds()
    ->when(now()->weekOfMonth === 4, function (LaravelScrapingBee $scrapingBeeClient): LaravelScrapingBee {
        // if it is last week of the month, spam premium proxy to use up credits!
        return $scrapingBeeClient->premiumProxy();
    })
    ->jsonResponse()
    ->jsScenario([
        ['click' => '#button_id'],
        ['wait' => 1000],
        ['wait_for' => '#slow_div'],
        ['scroll_x' => 1000],
        ['scroll_y' => 1000],
        ['fill' => ['#input_1','value_1']],
        ['evaluate' => 'console.log(window);'],
])->get('https://www.scrapingbee.com')

Look at the source code of src/LaravelScrapingBee.php for the other methods (link below). Methods that return $this are chainable. An example is the blockAds() method you saw above. Meanwhile methods such as get(), post(), usageStatistics() returns you an Illuminate\Http\Client\Response object if no exceptions are thrown.

LaravelScrapingBee.php

If for some reason you prefer to set all parameters at once you may wish to use the setParams() or addParams() method. Take note that these methods simply takes in an array and sets the parameters as is. So for the methods that does something extra before setting the parameter you would have to do them yourselves now if you chose this path.

An example is shown below:

$scrapingBeeClient = Ziming\LaravelScrapingBee\LaravelScrapingBee::make();

$response = $scrapingBeeClient->setParams([
        'js_scenario' => json_encode([
            'instructions' => [
                ['click' => '#button_id'],
                ['wait' => 1000],
                ['wait_for' => '#slow_div'],
                ['scroll_x' => 1000],
                ['scroll_y' => 1000],
                ['fill' => ['#input_1','value_1']],
                ['evaluate' => 'console.log(window);']
            ]
        ]),
        'block_ads' => true,
        'json_response' => true,
    ])->get('https://www.scrapingbee.com')

The Google Search ScrapingBee Client

$googleSearchScrapingBeeClient = Ziming\LaravelScrapingBee\LaravelScrapingBeeGoogleSearch::make();

$response = $googleSearchScrapingBeeClient
    ->nbResults(8)
    ->page(1)
    ->search('scrapingbee')
    ->get();

Look at the source code of src/LaravelScrapingBeeGoogleSearch.php for the other methods (link below).

LaravelScrapingBeeGoogleSearch.php

Testing

Currently, there are no tests. But if there are tests in the future, you can run the command below to execute the testcases.

composer test

Contributing

You may see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Ziming
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.