Does Goutte support XPath for selecting elements?

Yes, Goutte, a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP, supports XPath for selecting elements. Goutte is a wrapper around the Symfony BrowserKit and DomCrawler components, and the DomCrawler component allows you to navigate the DOM of a web page using both CSS selectors and XPath expressions.

To use XPath with Goutte, you will first need to send a request to the web page you want to scrape and then use the filterXPath method to select the elements you're interested in. Below is a sample PHP code snippet demonstrating how to use Goutte with XPath:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Goutte\Client;

$client = new Client();

// Send a GET request to the specified URL
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'https://example.com');

// Use XPath to filter and select elements
$nodes = $crawler->filterXPath('//div[@class="example-class"]');

// Iterate over the selected nodes
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
    // Do something with the DOMElement $node, for example, print the text content
    echo $node->textContent;
}

In this example, the filterXPath method is used to select all div elements with a class attribute of example-class. The resulting $nodes object is a collection of DOMElement objects that you can iterate over and manipulate as needed.

Keep in mind that when working with web scraping, you should always comply with the terms of service of the website and any applicable laws or regulations. It's also considered good practice to scrape responsibly by not overloading the server with too many requests in a short period of time.