scraper.php

<?php
require 'scraperwiki.php';
/**************************************
 * Basic PHP scraper
 **************************************/

$html = scraperwiki::scrape("http://www.imdb.com/chart/top");
$html = oneline($html);

preg_match_all('|<tr bgcolor="#.*?" valign="top"><td align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>(.*?)\.</b></font></td><td align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">(.*?)</font></td><td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><a href="(.*?)">(.*?)</a> \((.*?)\)</font></td><td align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">.*?</font></td></tr>|', $html, $arr);

foreach ($arr[1] as $key => $val) {
    scraperwiki::save([
        'rank'
    ], [
        'rank' => "" . clean($arr[1][$key]),
        'rating' => clean($arr[2][$key]),
        'name' => clean($arr[4][$key]),
        'year' => clean($arr[5][$key]),
        'link' => clean('http://www.imdb.com' . $arr[3][$key])
    ]);
}

function clean($val)
{
    $val = str_replace('&nbsp;', ' ', $val);
    $val = str_replace('&amp;', '&', $val);
    $val = html_entity_decode($val);
    $val = strip_tags($val);
    $val = trim($val);
    $val = utf8_decode($val);
    return $val;
}

function oneline($code)
{
    $code = str_replace("\n", '', $code);
    $code = str_replace("\r", '', $code);
    return $code;
}