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dimgraycat/pickurl
==================

A simple PHP Web Url Pick.

0.0.8(10y ago)128MITPHPPHP >=5.5.0

Since Nov 30Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/dimgraycat/PHP-PickUrl)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/dimgraycat/pickurl)[ Docs](http://github.com/dimgraycat/)[ RSS](/packages/dimgraycat-pickurl/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 4w ago

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PHP-PickUrl, a simple PHP Web Scraper
=====================================

[](#php-pickurl-a-simple-php-web-scraper)

[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/cd2c96c3d4bdf4f3e8572ed4da4273a344bfeb44ff31084a2eb9efb31d730493/687474703a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f6c6963656e73652d6d69742d626c75652e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://github.com/dimgraycat/PHP-PickUrl/blob/master/LICENSE)[![Packagist](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0146f19d7ec0b05d3883f6cb3f10aa80af11e5da233ccadcd008a377fa576257/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f64696d677261796361742f7069636b75726c2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/dimgraycat/pickurl)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

PHP-PickUrl depends on PHP 5.5+ and Goutte 1+ and Guzzle 6+.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This library can be found on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/dimgraycat/pickurl). The recommended way to install this is through [composer](http://getcomposer.org).

Edit your `composer.json` and add:

```
{
    "require": {
        "dimgraycat/pickurl": "*"
    }
}
```

And install dependencies:

```
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar install
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Create a Pickurl\\Spider Client instance:

```
addHook('before', function($crawler, $crawl_url) {
    print "$crawl_url\n";
})
->addHook('after', function($crawler, $crawl_url, $searched_urls) {
    print_r($searched_urls);
})
->crawl('http://foo.sample.com');
```

set UserAgent:

```
$this->setUserAgent("MyCrawler 1.0");
```

set WaitTime:

```
// default is 10sec. It can be shortened by setting.
$this->WaitTime(1);
```

License
-------

[](#license)

[PHP-PickUrl is licensed under the MIT license.](https://github.com/dimgraycat/PHP-PickUrl/blob/master/LICENSE)

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~15 days

Recently: every ~21 days

Total

7

Last Release

3774d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2d7304de4715159fceecfe8aa13cb1f745358d2de35a6516c3d2250174192120?d=identicon)[dimgraycat](/maintainers/dimgraycat)

---

Top Contributors

[![dimgraycat](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1193028?v=4)](https://github.com/dimgraycat "dimgraycat (25 commits)")

---

Tags

scraper

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