I have installed symfony/dom-crawler
in my project.
I am trying to get some of the meta tags from the URL of some random site to test.
$url = 'https://www.lala.rs/fun/this-news';
$crawler = new Crawler($url);
$data = $crawler->filterXpath("//meta[@name='description']")->extract(array('content'));
And it always returns []
as result.
I have tried with basic like meta description but maybe I do not understand it right. I checked the Symfony documentation but could not find the right approach for this.
You need to pass HTML content to the new Crawler($html)
and not a URL.
Works fine on this page, using
viewport
, because of missingdescription
.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0">
$url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66494027/get-meta-tags-from-url-with-dom-crawler';
$html = file_get_contents($url);
$crawler = new Crawler($html);
$data = $crawler->filterXpath("//meta[@name='viewport']")->extract(['content']);
Which gives
Array
(
[0] => width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0
)