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ezyang/htmlpurifier
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Standards compliant HTML filter written in PHP
v4.19.0(10mo ago)3.4k360.8M↓11.5%358[108 issues](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier/issues)[27 PRs](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier/pulls)20LGPL-2.1-or-laterPHPPHP ~5.6.0 || ~7.0.0 || ~7.1.0 || ~7.2.0 || ~7.3.0 || ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0CI failing
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[](#html-purifier-)
HTML Purifier is an HTML filtering solution that uses a unique combination of robust whitelists and aggressive parsing to ensure that not only are XSS attacks thwarted, but the resulting HTML is standards compliant.
HTML Purifier is oriented towards richly formatted documents from untrusted sources that require CSS and a full tag-set. This library can be configured to accept a more restrictive set of tags, but it won't be as efficient as more bare-bones parsers. It will, however, do the job right, which may be more important.
Places to go:
- See INSTALL for a quick installation guide
- See docs/ for developer-oriented documentation, code examples and an in-depth installation guide.
- See WYSIWYG for information on editors like TinyMCE and FCKeditor
HTML Purifier can be found on the web at:
Installation
------------
[](#installation)
Package available on [Composer](https://packagist.org/packages/ezyang/htmlpurifier).
If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can use
```
$ composer require ezyang/htmlpurifier
```
### Health Score
75
—
ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages
Maintenance54
Moderate activity, may be stable
Popularity85
Widely adopted with strong download metrics
Community60
Healthy contributor diversity
Maturity90
Battle-tested with a long release history
Bus Factor1
Top contributor holds 76.8% 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 ~289 days
Recently: every ~281 days
Total
17
Last Release
304d ago
PHP version history (5 changes)v4.5.0PHP >=5.2
v4.15.0PHP ~5.6.0 || ~7.0.0 || ~7.1.0 || ~7.2.0 || ~7.3.0 || ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0
v4.17.0PHP ~5.6.0 || ~7.0.0 || ~7.1.0 || ~7.2.0 || ~7.3.0 || ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0
v4.18.0PHP ~5.6.0 || ~7.0.0 || ~7.1.0 || ~7.2.0 || ~7.3.0 || ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0
v4.19.0PHP ~5.6.0 || ~7.0.0 || ~7.1.0 || ~7.2.0 || ~7.3.0 || ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0
### Community
Maintainers
[robo47](/maintainers/robo47)
[ezyang](/maintainers/ezyang)
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Top Contributors
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Tags
html
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