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Asked: 2026-05-17T07:59:48+00:00

I know the question regarding PHP web page scrapers has been asked time and

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I know the question regarding PHP web page scrapers has been asked time and time and using this, I discovered SimpleHTMLDOM. After working seamlessly on my local server, I uploaded everything to my online server only to find out something wasn’t working right. A quick look at the FAQ lead me to this. I’m currently using a free hosting service so edit any php.ini settings. So using the FAQ’s suggestion, I tried using cURL, only to find out that this too is turned off by my hosting service. Are there any other simple solutions to scrape contents of a of another web page without the use or cURL or SimpleHTMLDOM?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If cURL and allow_url_fopen are not enabled you can try to fetch the content via

    • fsockopen — Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection

    In other words, you have to do HTTP Requests manually. See the example in the manual for how to do a GET Request. The returned content can then be further processed. If sockets are enabled, you can also use any third party lib utilitzing them, for instance Zend_Http_Client.

    On a sidenote, check out Best Methods to Parse HTML for alternatives to SimpleHTMLDom.

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