Can anyone suggest any good cURL based PHP browser / spider / crawler / http / file download libraries..?
I just want to have a tool for downloading content from URLs, like I would do with implode('', file(url)) or file_get_contents(), but it should support timeouts, HTTP code responses, custom headers etc.
cURL is awesome, I’ve been using it for a while in a function I created, but I want an encapsulated 3rd party library. Sure there must be such.. I made a search, but I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted.
I wrote my own pretty decent function using cURL: http://pastebin.com/4CPaCfMm
It works, but I just though I could search for a more advanced OOP tool that I could use in my projects, that would get maintained and furthur developed – a library.