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Recently I needed a crawler script that would create a list of all pages on a single domain. As a part of that I wrote some functions that could download a page, extract all URLs from the HTML and turn them into absolute URLs (so that they themselves can be crawled later). Here’s the PHP code.
Extracting All Links From A Page
Here’s a function that will download the specified URL and extract all links from the HTML. It also translates relative URLs to absolute URLs, tries to remove repeated links and is overall a fine piece of code 🙂 Depending on your goal you may want to comment out some lines (e.g. the part that strips ‘#something’ (in-page links) from URLs).
Here’s a function that will download the specified URL and extract all links from the HTML. It also translates relative URLs to absolute URLs, tries to remove repeated links and is overall a fine piece of code 🙂 Depending on your goal you may want to comment out some lines (e.g. the part that strips ‘#something’ (in-page links) from URLs).
function crawl_page($page_url, $domain) {/* $page_url - page to extract links from, $domain - crawl only this domain (and subdomains) Returns an array of absolute URLs or false on failure.*//* I'm using cURL to retrieve the page */ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $page_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);/* Spoof the User-Agent header value; just to be safe */ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)');/* I set timeout values for the connection and downloadbecause I don't want my script to get stuckdownloading huge files or trying to connect toa nonresponsive server. These are optional. */ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);/* This ensures 404 Not Found (and similar) will be treated as errors */ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);/* This might/should help against accidentally downloading mp3 files and such, but it doesn't really work :/ */ $header[] = "Accept: text/html, text/*"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);/* Download the page */ $html = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); if(!$html) return false;/* Extract the BASE tag (if present) for relative-to-absolute URL conversions later */ if(preg_match('/]+)[\'\" >]/i' ,$html, $matches)){ $base_url=$matches[1]; } else { $base_url=$page_url; } $links=array(); $html = str_replace("\n", ' ', $html); preg_match_all('/]*href\s*=\s*([\"\']+)([^>]+?)(\1|>)/i' , $html, $m);/* this regexp is a combination of numerous versions I saw online; should be good. */ foreach($m[2] as $url) { $url=trim($url); /* get rid of PHPSESSID, #linkname, & and javascript: */ $url=preg_replace( array('/([\?&]PHPSESSID=\w+)$/i','/(#[^\/]*)$/i', '/&/','/^(javascript:.*)/i'), array('','','&',''), $url); /* turn relative URLs into absolute URLs. relative2absolute() is defined further down below on this page. */ $url = relative2absolute($base_url, $url); // check if in the same (sub-)$domain if(preg_match("/^http[s]?:\/\/[^\/]*".str_replace('.', '\.', $domain)."/i", $url)) { //save the URL if(!in_array($url, $links)) $links[]=$url; } } return $links;}How To Translate a Relative URL to an Absolute URL
This script is based on a function I found on the web with some small but significant changes. function relative2absolute($absolute, $relative) { $p = @parse_url($relative); if(!$p) { //$relative is a seriously malformed URL return false; } if(isset($p["scheme"])) return $relative; $parts=(parse_url($absolute)); if(substr($relative,0,1)=='/') { $cparts = (explode("/", $relative)); array_shift($cparts); } else { if(isset($parts['path'])){ $aparts=explode('/',$parts['path']); array_pop($aparts); $aparts=array_filter($aparts); } else { $aparts=array(); } $rparts = (explode("/", $relative)); $cparts = array_merge($aparts, $rparts); foreach($cparts as $i => $part) { if($part == '.') { unset($cparts[$i]); } else if($part == '..') { unset($cparts[$i]); unset($cparts[$i-1]); } } } $path = implode("/", $cparts); $url = ''; if($parts['scheme']) { $url = "$parts[scheme]://"; } if(isset($parts['user'])) { $url .= $parts['user']; if(isset($parts['pass'])) { $url .= ":".$parts['pass']; } $url .= "@"; } if(isset($parts['host'])) { $url .= $parts['host']."/"; } $url .= $path; return $url; } 
