There are a couple of ways to do this, but the way I would approach this is something like the following,
Use cURL to fetch the page, ie:
// $target_url has the url to be fetched, ie: "http://www.website.com"
// $userAgent should be set to a friendly agent, sneaky but hey...
$userAgent = 'Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
if (!$html) {
echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);
echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);
exit;
}
If all goes well, page content is now all in $html.
Let's move on and load the page in a DOM Object:
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
So far so good, XPath to the rescue to scrape the links out of the DOM object:
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//a");
Loop through the result and get the links:
for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {
$href = $hrefs->item($i);
$link = $href->getAttribute('href');
$text = $href->nodeValue
// Do what you want with the link, print it out:
echo $text , ' -> ' , $link;
// Or save this in an array for later processing..
$links[$i]['href'] = $link;
$links[$i]['text'] = $text;
}
$hrefs is an object of type DOMNodeList and item() returns a DOMNode object for the specified index. So basically we’ve got a loop that retrieves each link as a DOMNode object.
This should pretty much do it for you.
The only part I am not 100% sure of is if the link is an image or an anchor, what would happen in those conditions, I have no idea so you would need to test and filter those out.
Hope this gives you an idea of how to scrape links, happy coding.