Get content from web URL in laravel

• Get title, description and image from meta tags using website url in laravel

  --PATH routes\web.php

  Route::get('/get-content-url', function(){
      $url = 'https://oscarliang.com/';
      $resp = [];
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
      $data = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);
      // Load HTML to DOM Object
      $dom = new DOMDocument();
      @$dom->loadHTML($data);
      
      // Parse DOM to get Title
      $nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('title');
      $title = '';
      if($nodes->length > 0){
          $title = $nodes->item(0)->nodeValue;
      }
      // Parse DOM to get Meta Description
      $metas = $dom->getElementsByTagName('meta');
      $body = "";
      $imageURL = "";
      for ($i = 0; $i < $metas->length; $i ++) {
          $meta = $metas->item($i);
          if ($meta->getAttribute('name') == 'Description' || $meta->getAttribute('name') == 'description') {
              $body = $meta->getAttribute('content');
          }
          if ($meta->getAttribute('property') == 'og:image:url') {
              $imageURL = $meta->getAttribute('content');
          }elseif($meta->getAttribute('property') == 'og:image'){
              $imageURL = $meta->getAttribute('content');
          }
      }
  
      $images = $dom->getElementsByTagName('img');
  
      if(!isset($imageURL) &amp;&amp; $images->length > 0){
          $imageURL = $images->item(0)->getAttribute('src');
      }
      
      $output = array(
          'title' => $title,
          'image_url' => $imageURL,
          'body' => preg_replace('/[^\00-\255]+/u', '', $body)
      );
      return $output; 
  });
  

  Output :

  {"title":"Oscar Liang - FPV Drone Tutorials and Reviews",
  "image_url":"https:\/\/oscarliang.com\/ctt\/uploads\/2021\/03\/oscarliang-fpv-drone-tutorial-review-blog-quadcopter-rc.jpg",
  "body":"FPV Drone Tutorials and Reviews, a blog for RC hobbyists to get latest information about quadcopter 
  and multirotor products and technology development, delivered to you by Oscar Liang."}

   This code snippet will return the title, description and image url from meta tags of the web page. If image does not exist with the meta property og:image and og:image:url within meta tags then it will get the first image from inside of the body tag of the web page.

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