Grab Alexa Top Sites by Category with PHP

I would like to get the list of top sites by category. Is there a way to do this using PHP/Curl? Or do I have to use their API? Seems like they are charging to use the cloud computing...I'm cheapo

 

You can scrape it pretty easy but scraping is unreliable here's a working example

$html=file_get_contents('http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Sports');
preg_match_all(
    '/<div class="desc-container">.*?<h2><a href=".*?">(.*?)<\/a><\/h2>/s',
    $html,
    $array, //array with sites
    PREG_SET_ORDER 
);

PHP:

Then run a foreach or something on $array

Cheers!

 

thanks! This works great. I wish I knew how to "spider" each category. I guess that is a whole 'nother big thing.