Goutte VS SecurityAdvisories

Look into Goutte (https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte). It has a simple API and you can extract text/links with ease by targeting CSS selectors. I have used it for a similar task before, you should be done within a day, max 2.

But this process will fail if the source site changes. Its better to look at parsing HTML code instead if using sub-strings. There are some nice libraries like Goutte that can help you with scraping a site.

Without discussing if it’s right or wrong to keep a version of third party code that could break everthing (take a look at this PR), we were suddenly at a crossroads: drop the deps=low and give up on this kind of tests or dig in the Composer manual and look for something that could possibly help us: you guessed right, conflict is what we needed (thanks to jakzal!).

I recommend looking into something more modern like Goutte. The GitHub page has some documentation.

To reduce the chance of introducing vulnerable dependencies into your projects, you can use tools such as "Roave Security Advisories" (roave/security-advisories).

In order to avoid accepting third-party code with well-known security issues you can take advantage of SecurityAdvisories by Roave, a library which uses conflict as shown in this article to block unsafe packages. Give it a look!

roave/security-advisories: Security advisories as a simple composer exclusion list, updated daily

Every composer user should use at least https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories