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Simple Web Scraping with Zenscrape API using PHP

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Web scraping or data mining is a way to get the desired data from web pages programmatically. Most of the businesses uses web scraping systems to get the useful data from other websites to use in their businesses.

As a developer we sometimes write a simple script to scrape the data from websites. But it’s not an easy task to write complete script as there are so many limitations to pass the process to scrape the data from other websites.

So if you’re running a business or a developer and looking for a complete solution to scrape the websites data, then you’re here at the right place. In this tutorial, you will learn how to scrape the data from websites with Zenscrape API using PHP.

The Zenscrape API provides an easy solution to scrape the web pages data without having any technical knowledge. You can use their visual web scraper with simple options to scrape the data into your desired data format like CSV, JSON etc. The Zenscrape API is smart enough to rotates each request with different IPs from different countries all over the world and return only the valid results.

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Scrape Search Result with Zenserp API using PHP

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Search Engine Result Pages (known as SERP) are the search result pages presented by search engines. Generally, we need to go through the search result pages to get the relevant search result data. But sometimes we needs to collect large SERPs data. In that scenario, we need to develop a system to scrape the SERPs data programmatically. But it’s always a challenge for the developers to develop their own scrapping system as it involves captcha-solving, managing proxy servers and parsing of the constantly changing markup of the search results.

So if you’re a company owner or a developer and looking for the solution to get SERP data, then you’re here at the right place. In this tutorial, you will learn how to get scrape SERP data using Zenserp API with PHP.

Zenserp API is an easy to use SERP API that returns highly accurate SERPs data. You don’t need to worry about handling captcha, proxy servers etc. Just use the API interface directly from Zenserp API to scrape the SERP data from any website. You can scrape the SERP data into your desired file format such as raw HTML or CSV data.


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Build User Agent Lookup System using Userstack API with PHP

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While designing a website, we need to know about the device or browser using user agent to provide great user interface. The user agent information is important and plays important role for any website. But we always struggle to get accurate user agent information.

If you’re running a website or working on to develop a website and wants to get details of user agent to make website user friendly. Then you’re here at the right place, you can easily integrate the Userstack API to get the accurate user agent details.

The Userstack API is a real-time, easy to use REST API that take user agent strings as input and output accurate user agent information like detect device, browser and operating system and also result response as JSON data.

In this tutorial you will learn how to consume Userstack API with PHP to get user agent information with example.

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Build IP Lookup Website using ipapi with PHP

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Website visitors details plays an important role for any website to connect with their users to provide best user experience and services. Website owners always looking for its users details, but its not very easy to get complete details of website visitors as they belong from around the world.

So if you’re a website owner or developing a website and wants to get details of your website visitor details, then you’re here at the right place. In this tutorial you will learn how consume Ipapi with PHP to get ip address information.

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Build Weather Website with Weatherstack API using PHP

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Weather is the information of atmosphere to describe the degree of a place. Weather information consists of detail about a location such as hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. The Weather information also includes weather forecasting to predict the conditions of atmosphere. The weather information are collected by Meteorological department.

There are many websites that displaying Weather information and we always checking these websites for current weather updates. But most of weather websites are slow and we started thinking to develop own website to display Weather information.

So if you’re thinking about developing your own Weather website then you’re here at the right place. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build your own Weather website using Weatherstack API using PHP.

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Export Data to CSV File with PHP and MySQL

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Comma Separated Values (CSV) is a popular file format to store tabular data into plain text file. The each line of the CSV file is a data record and each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas. The data stored in CSV file can easily be imported to and exported from application.

If you’re thinking about to implement data export to CSV with PHP, then you’re here at right place. As in our previous tutorial you have learned how to export data to excel with PHP. In this tutorial you will learn how to Export data to CSV File using PHP and MySQL.

We will cover this tutorial in easy steps to implement live example to export data to csv using PHP and MySQL

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