php crawler for ajax based websites?

Question

Maybe this is gonna sound naive and all, but is there something even remotely close to a php crawler for ajax based websites?

Answer 1

The problem is that vanilla PHP doesn't understand how to parse JavaScript, generate the JavaScript environment, and interact with everything. In order to theoretically do it, you would have to extend PHP via the C API and interface it with a JavaScript library. The scale of this is quite large depending on how many resources you have.