📚 PHP Book Scraper & Crawler

A simple PHP web app that scrapes books from books.toscrape.com, including multiple pages and categories.

🔍 Features

• Select category from dropdown
• Crawls all pages of that category
• Extracts:
  • Book title
  • Price
  • Availability
  • Book link
• Exports to CSV
• Displays results in responsive Bootstrap table

🚀 Demo

Run locally with XAMPP or any PHP server

1. Clone or download this repo
2. Place folder inside htdocs/ (if using XAMPP)
3. Start Apache and visit http://localhost/php-book-crawler/index.php
4. Choose a category and click "Scrape"

📦 Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• cURL enabled
• DOM extension (default in PHP)

📁 Folder Structure

php-book-crawler/ ├── index.php ├── scrape.php ├── scraper/ │ └── BookScraper.php ├── exports/ │ └── books.csv

🔒 2. .gitignore

exports/books.csv *.log

🔧 Technologies Used

• PHP 8+
• DOMDocument
• Simple HTML DOM Parser (προαιρετικά)
• Bootstrap (για το UI)