How to scrape websites when cURL and allow_url_fopen is disabled

Question

I know the question regarding PHP web page scrapers has been asked time and time and using this, I discovered SimpleHTMLDOM. After working seamlessly on my local server, I

Answer 1

Here's a simple way to grab images when allow_url_fopen is set to false, without studying up on estoteric tools.

Create a web page on your dev environment that loads all the images you're scraping. You can then use your browser to save the images. File -> "Save Page As".

This is handy if you need a one time solution for downloading a bunch of images from a remote server that has allow_url_fopen set to 0.

This worked for me after file_get_contents and curl failed.