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Overview

This example demonstrates how to extract structured data from a web page and get it as PHP object.

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Example

In this example we will be extracting list of Laravel companies from The Manifest website. The result will be a list of Company objects.

We use Webpage extractor to get the content of the page and specify ‘none’ scraper, which means that we will be using built-in file_get_contents function to get the content of the page.

In production environment you might want to use one of the supported scrapers:

  • browsershot
  • scrapingbee
  • scrapfly
  • jinareader

Commercial scrapers require API key, which can be set in the configuration file (/config/web.php).

<?php
$loader = require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$loader->add('Cognesy\\Instructor\\', __DIR__ . '../../src/');

use Cognesy\Instructor\Enums\Mode;
use Cognesy\Instructor\Extras\Web\Webpage;
use Cognesy\Instructor\Instructor;
use Cognesy\Instructor\Schema\Attributes\Instructions;

class Company {
    public string $name = '';
    public string $location = '';
    public string $description = '';
    public int $minProjectBudget = 0;
    public string $companySize = '';
    #[Instructions('Remove any tracking parameters from the URL')]
    public string $websiteUrl = '';
    /** @var string[] */
    public array $clients = [];
}

$instructor = (new Instructor)->withClient('anthropic');

$companyGen = Webpage::withScraper('none')
    ->get('https://themanifest.com/pl/software-development/laravel/companies?page=1')
    ->cleanup()
    ->select('.directory-providers__list')
    ->selectMany('.provider-card', fn($item) => $item->asMarkdown());

$companies = [];
foreach($companyGen as $company) {
    $company = $instructor->respond(
        messages: $company,
        responseModel: Company::class,
        mode: Mode::Json
    );
    $companies[] = $company;
    dump($company);
}

?>
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