This article discusses about how to write a website scraper using PHP for web site data extraction. The concepts taught can be applied and programmed in Java, C#, etc. Basically any language that has a powerful string processing capability. This article will teach you the basics of website scraping. The article will further cover a tutorial to find web ranking from Yahoo.com search engine.

Steps involved to write a scraping program

1. Visit the URL
2. Understand the pattern
3. Validate the structure of pattern on different URLs
4. Write the program
5. Test the program using various input parameters

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