Scraping and Automation in CodeIgniter

Hey There!

Basically, I want to make a website that can scrape data from other websites without using an API in the same way that cURL in PHP scrapes data from other websites. I would like to know if it is possible to do this type of programming in CodeIgniter. My final year project will be a CodeIgniter project that focuses on automation and that I wish to do in CodeIgniter. Would anyone please guide me in this regard.

Thanks.