Casper CURL

Basics on casperjs / phantomjs libs for get content difficult sites.

Installation

1 Install global casperjs and phantomjs

npm install -g casperjs
npm install -g phantomjs

# If phantomjs is running with errors
npm install -g phantomjs --ignore-scripts

2 Install CasperCURL package

composer require denis-kisel/casper-curl

Publish Configuration File(If Use Laravel)

If you use another framework or native PHP, just skip this setting.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="DenisKisel\CasperCURL\ServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Usage

Simple example

//Return content page
$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')->request()

Set Method

method($method)
Methods available: GET|POST|PUT|DELETE
By default use GET

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->method('POST')
    ->request()

Set Data

withData($arrayData)

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->withData([
        'login' => '***',
        'pass' => '***'
    ])
    ->method('POST')
    ->request()

Set Headers

withHeaders($arrayHeaders)

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->withHeaders([
        'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0',
        'Accept' => 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
    ])
    ->request()

Set UserAgent

userAgent($userAgent)
By default use: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->userAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0')
    ->request()

Use Proxy

withProxy($ip, $port [, $method = 'http'] [, $login = null] [, $pass = null])

Methods available: http|socks5|none

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->withProxy($ip, $port)
    ->request()

Use Cookies

withCookie($fileName, [, $dir])
By default cookie is disabled.
By default cookies file is stored in storage dir.

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->withCookie('cookie.txt')
    ->request()

Use WindowSize(ViewPort)

windowSize($with, $height)
By default: width/height: 1920/1080 px

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->windowSize(320, 600)
    ->request()

Phantom Cli Options

Set custom phantom cli options
List of available options: Phantom Options Doc

withPhantomOptions($arrayOptions)
Key of option must not contain a prefix --

$options = [
    'debug' => 'true',
    'ignore-ssl-errors' => 'true'
];

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('https://google.com')
    ->withPhantomOptions($options)
    ->request()

CasperJS

For use dynamic handling content
Casper Doc

Use Casper Then

casperThen($jsScript)
DOC

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('http://google.fr')
    ->casperThen('
         this.fill('form[action="/search"]', { q: 'casperjs' }, true);
         this.wait(2000, function () {
             this.capture('step_1.png');
         });
     
    ')
    ->request()

Use Custom Casper JS

Custom casper body js
DOC

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('http://google.fr')
    ->customCasper('
        casper.then(function() {
             this.fill('form[action="/search"]', { q: 'casperjs' }, true);
             this.wait(2000, function () {
                 this.capture('step_1.png');
             });
        });
    ')
    ->request()

Debug

enableDebug()
Will be store response data and capture in storage dir

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('http://google.com')
    ->enableDebug()
    ->request()

Response

Response is object with fields:

• status (exp. 200|404|500)
• content (string html|dom|txt)

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('http://google.com')
    ->request();
    
$response->status;
$response->content;

Response Content

By default request response full page content
DOC

But response can override by output variable

$casperCURL = new \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\CasperCURL($storageDir);
$response = $casperCURL->to('http://google.fr')
    ->casperThen('
         this.fill('form[action="/search"]', { q: 'casperjs' }, true);
         this.wait(2000, function () {
             this.capture('step_1.png');
         });
         
         output = console.log('Override default output!');
    ')
    ->request()

Use In Laravel

$response = \DenisKisel\CasperCURL\LCasperCURL::to('https://google.com')->request()

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Contact

Developer: Denis Kisel

• Email: [email protected]
• Skype: live:denis.kisel92