GrabQL (Grabbing Query Language) is a SQL-like language to be used for web-scraping. It is developed in PHP because one of its requirements is to be used embedded in a PHP application.
This is not yet a stable version, work in progress! More details coming soon.
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composer update
chmod +x ./public/gql.php
./public/gql.php ./sample/sample1.gql
It will run the sample1.gql script that contains the following GrabQL code:
# Variables
var url = 'albertoarena.co.uk'
var results = {}
var what = {'href', '@value'}
# Query using xPath
select what from url to results where '//a[@class="post-link"]'
# Format results using JSON format
echo 'Query results:' results:json
And produce a JSON list of posts in the main page of my blog!
--- GQL Interpreter 0.1 ---
Query results:
[{"href":"\/grabql-a-query-language-for-data-scraping","@value":"GrabQL, a query language for data scraping"},{"href":"\/is-it-really-an-integer","@value":"Is it really an integer?"},{"href":"\/i-moved-to-jekyll","@value":"I moved to Jekyll"},{"href":"\/a-simple-javascript-gettersetter","@value":"A simple Javascript Getter\/Setter"},{"href":"\/installing-store-kit-in-titanium-studio","@value":"Installing Store Kit in Titanium Studio"},{"href":"\/special-effects-in-css3","@value":"Special effects in CSS3"},{"href":"\/sharing-your-house-factory-method-pattern-can-help-you","@value":"Sharing your house? Factory method pattern can help you"}]