Web scraper for vbulletin. Create pdf of pages and whole thread and downloads all attached images.

download.php

<?php

const BASE = '';
const COUNT = 1;

$pages = [];
for ($i = 1; $i <= COUNT; $i++) {
  $suffix = $i > 1 ? '/page' . $i : '';
  $pages[] = $page = 'page' . $i . '.pdf';
  $url = BASE . $suffix;
  execute('wkhtmltopdf ' . escapeshellarg($url) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($page));


  print_section('Extracting images...');
  if ($xml = load($url)) {
    if (!is_dir('images')) mkdir('images');

    $key = 1;
    foreach ($xml->xpath('//div[@id="postlist"]//div[@class="postrow"]//img[contains(@src, "attachment")]') as $image) {
      $src = (string) $image['src'];
      $out = 'images/page' . $i . '.' . $key++ . '.jpg';
      execute('wget -O ' . escapeshellarg($out) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($src));
    }
  }
  else {
    echo "FAILED TO LOAD $url\n";
  }
}

execute('pdfunite ' . implode(' ', $pages) . ' full.pdf');


function execute($command) {
  print_section($command);
  passthru($command);
}

function print_section($text) {
  echo "\n\n$text\n\n";
}

function load($url) {
  if ($contents = file_get_contents($url)) {
    $document = @DOMDocument::loadHTML($contents);
    if ($document) {
      return simplexml_import_dom($document);
    }
  }

  return false;
}

This script idea is pretty interesting, especially the part where it converts forum pages to PDF and grabs attached images automatically. Tools like this can be helpful if someone wants to archive threads or keep a local copy for reference. While browsing discussions about different online platforms recently, I also came across this site: https://bitkingzcasinowin.com/ which people were mentioning in some threads.