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Scraping Data from Wikipedia with PHP

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Dec 6, 2023

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites automatically. This article demonstrates how to scrape Wikipedia using PHP and cURL to get data on the Presidents of the United States.

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