Archives: web-crawler-development
How Much Does a Web Crawler Cost?
March 5, 2023 | By adminDiscover the true cost of a web crawler for your business needs. From open-source to commercial solutions, find the best fit and ROI for your budget.
All About XPaths & Web Crawlers
February 17, 2023 | By adminDiscover the power of XPaths for web crawling and data extraction in this expert guide. Learn how to write effective XPaths with real-world examples.
What Can I Collect with a Web Crawler?
February 15, 2023 | By adminThe TL-DR This article outlines the types of data that can be collected with a web crawler for company analysis, • Read More »

The Best Methods to Extract Data from AJAX Pages
January 20, 2023 | By adminCan web crawlers interpret and extract information from JavaScript or AJAX pages? Absolutely, but it requires using a system that • Read More »

Is Web Crawling Legal?
January 8, 2023 | By adminWhile web crawlers can be useful and even necessary in some cases, using them can also raise significant legal concerns.

Shield Your IP Address: Web Crawlers and Proxies
July 16, 2019 | By adminTired of your web crawlers getting blocked? Try using a free proxy. In this article we explain what proxies are, how to use them, and where to get them.

Web Crawler Development Techniques
July 15, 2019 | By adminLooking for some quick code to build your web crawler in PHP? Here's some code we use a lot here at Potent Pages to make our development a lot easier!

Creating a Polite PHP Web Crawler: Checking robots.txt
May 31, 2018 | By adminIn this tutorial, we create a PHP website spider that uses the robots.txt file to know which pages we're allowed to download. We continue from our previous tutorials to create a robust web spider and expand on it to check for download crawling permissions.

Creating a Simple PHP Web Crawler
May 24, 2018 | By adminLooking to download a site or multiple webpages? Interested in examining all of the titles and descriptions for a site? We created a quick tutorial on building a script to do this in PHP. Learn how to download webpages and follow links to download an entire website.

Downloading a Webpage using PHP and cURL
May 24, 2018 | By adminLooking to automatically download webpages? Here's how to download a page using PHP and cURL.