We all have been in situations were we need content or information from a connected website, but have no access to a REST Api or any other backend feed.

In these cases screen scraping is the only option to get needed information to finalize an integration. You can do that directly in CURL, but that can be tedious. Far easier to use a nicely packaged solution that combines a component that simulates web browser behavior and a component that eases DOM navigation for HTML and XML documents. Meet Goutte!

STEP 0

Install via composer.

STEP 1

Login into a website and navigate to the page that has your needed information

STEP 2

Get the data you need.

Goutte @ Github
BrowserKit Documentation
DOM Crawler Documentation

Enjoy coding …

After some downtime, GreenApe is breathing again. I revived the brand with a good friend of mine and we will be reopening shop options shortly.

Michael and I have been friends for a long time. We have been working on many different projects over the years.

He launched GreenApe in 2011 and I helped him with his first steps. A couple of months ago we decided to merge our competences and expand what GreenApe offers and stands for.

From the website: “The GreenApe brand was established in 2011. GreenApe’s career began with the 1st Single Malt Whisky Coffee.

As the first of its kind, our coffee is refined with Original Single Malt Whisky. To this day, he pampers many connoisseurs and gourmets with his unique taste. Now there is another reason to rejoice.

From now on, we are continuously expanding the GreenApe product world with several stylish gadgets and useful accessories. For you this means that you will be able to discover even more beautiful, special or practical things in the future.“

GreenApe is all about lifestyle & leisure products, fun gadgets and unique food & drinks.

Quickly draw a leader line in your web page.

Leaderline @ Github

“Element queries are a new way of thinking about responsive web design where the responsive conditions apply to elements on the page instead of the width or height of the browser.
Unlike CSS @media queries, @element Queries are aware of more than just the width and height of the browser, you can write responsive conditions for a number of different situations like how many characters of text or child elements an element contains.
Another concept that element queries brings to CSS is the idea of ‘scoping’ your styles to one element in the same way that JavaScript functions define a new scope for the variables they contain.”

Element Query Conditions

Width-based Conditions

• min-width min-width in px, min-width in %
• max-width max-width in px, max-width in %

Height-based Conditions

• min-height min-height in px, min-height in %
• max-height max-height in px, max-height in %

Count-based Conditions

• min-characters on block elements, on form inputs
• max-characters on block elements, on form inputs
• min-lines min-lines demo
• max-lines max-lines demo
• min-children min-children demo
• max-children max-children demo

Scroll-based Conditions

• min-scroll-y min-scroll-y demo
• max-scroll-y max-scroll-y demo
• min-scroll-x min-scroll-x demo
• max-scroll-x max-scroll-x demo

Aspect-based Conditions

• orientation orientation demo
• min-aspect-ratio min-aspect-ratio demo
• max-aspect-ratio max-aspect-ratio demo

Meta-Selectors

• $this $this demo
• $parent $parent demo
• $root $root demo
• $prev $prev demo
• $next $next demo

Element Queries

Inspect styles in a simple, well-organized & beautiful way with this Chrome extension. You can select any object to get more specific information about them. Also a nice way to browse color palettes of websites you visit.

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