Simple html dom file_get_html not working - is there any workaround?

Answer 1

As I said, your example is working fine for me... But try this way using curl instead:

//base url
$base = 'https://play.google.com/store/apps';

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $base);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $base);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$str = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

// Create a DOM object
$html_base = new simple_html_dom();
// Load HTML from a string
$html_base->load($str);

//get all category links
foreach($html_base->find('a') as $element) {
    echo "
";
    print_r( $element->href );
    echo "
";
}

$html_base->clear(); 
unset($html_base);

It gets all the links as expected:

And make sure you have php_openssl and php_curl installed...