tzsk / scrape-pod

Podcast Search and Scrape XML via Itunes and Digital Podcast

Scrape Pod

Scrape Pod is a Podcast Searching and XML parsing tool. You can search podcasts from Itunes or DigitalPodcast. This tool is designed for Laravel 5.1 and above but this can be used outside laravel as well.

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require tzsk/scrape-pod

Configure

If you are using Laravel 5.4 or Below you need to perform following steps to configure.

And if you are using this package outside Laravel then you don't have to perform these steps.

In your config/app.php file place the Provider and alias like so.

'providers' => [
    ...
    Tzsk\ScrapePod\Provider\ScrapePodServiceProvider::class,
    ...
],

'aliases' => [
    ...
    'ScrapePod' => Tzsk\ScrapePod\Facade\ScrapePod::class,
    ...
],

Usage with Laravel

Searching Example:

At the top of any file use the namespace;

...
use Tzsk\ScrapePod\Facade\ScrapePod;
...

Now, inside any method use it like this:

$response = ScrapePod::search("Laravel");
$response = ScrapePod::find("936914258"); # Works only with itunes.

# OR

$response = ScrapePod::limit(15)->search("Laravel");

# OR use Digital Podcast to Search.

$response = ScrapePod::digitalPodcast()->search("Laravel");
$response = ScrapePod::digitalPodcast()->limit(15)->search("Laravel");

XML Parsing Example:

From the search results you can find the rss feed url. You can use that URL or any other Feed URL you want.

$data = ScrapePod::feed($feedURL);

This will give you the Sraped Result Set of any information found on that Feed URL.

Usage outside Laravel

At the top of any file use the namespace;

...
use Tzsk\ScrapePod\ScrapePodcast;
...

Now, inside any method use it like this:

$scraper = new ScrapePodcast();
$response = $scraper->search("Laravel");

# OR

$response = $scraper->limit(15)->search("Laravel");

# OR use Digital Podcast to Search.

$response = $scraper->digitalPodcast()->search("Laravel");
$response = $scraper->digitalPodcast()->limit(15)->search("Laravel");

XML Parsing Example:

From the search results you can find the rss feed url. You can use that URL or any other Feed URL you want.

$data = $scraper->feed($feedURL);

This will give you the Sraped Result Set of any information found on that Feed URL.

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Kazi Mainuddin Ahmed
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

scrape-pod's Issues

Searching on PHP and HTML causes error

Detailed description

This issue is a bug. When you search on php or html

$response = ScrapePod::search("php");

you get a return value of

"status" => false
"message" => "Undefined property: stdClass::$feedUrl"

This is happening in php 7.1 on windows 10.