I wrote a post on some XPath magic for all you evil scrapers out there. Now I will show you how to scrape RSS feeds. I used to do it the RegExp way but now I decided to head over to XML parsing and DOM processing. Lazy enough I decided to look for an already made version and found a quite good one actually. Close to my needs but not exactly. I took it, used and abused the source (ended up changing almost completely), and achieved the one I needed. The good thing about the RSS Scraper using DOM XML + PHP is that it's way shorter and much more reliable than the RegExp version.
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My mildly wildly popular eHttpClient class no longer available on my old blog has evolved. It changed into elHttpClient, an all new toy for the fellow blackhats and php coders. eHttpClient is the one-stop solution for web downloading combining the power of cURL with PHP to provide a dead easy solution for your web downloading (scraping) needs.With basic knowledge you can do anything in terms of downloading web content.

This class has been by far my most popular share and brought in most feedback. I've looked into the feedback trying to make things even easier and this was born. Oh wtf ... the truth is I've written this for myself and decided to share it! I didn't care about no feedback.
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