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fabpot/goutte
=============

A simple PHP Web Scraper

v4.0.3(3y ago)9.2k54.9M—2.5%989[138 issues](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte/issues)20MITPHPPHP >=7.1.3

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Goutte, a simple PHP Web Scraper
================================

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

Goutte is a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP.

Goutte provides a nice API to crawl websites and extract data from the HTML/XML responses.

**WARNING**: This library is deprecated. As of v4, Goutte became a simple proxy to the [HttpBrowser class](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/browser_kit.html#making-external-http-requests)from the [Symfony BrowserKit](https://symfony.com/browser-kit) component. To migrate, replace `Goutte\Client` by `Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\HttpBrowser` in your code.

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

[](#requirements)

Goutte depends on PHP 7.1+.

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

[](#installation)

Add `fabpot/goutte` as a require dependency in your `composer.json` file:

```
composer require fabpot/goutte
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Create a Goutte Client instance (which extends `Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\HttpBrowser`):

```
use Goutte\Client;

$client = new Client();
```

Make requests with the `request()` method:

```
// Go to the symfony.com website
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'https://www.symfony.com/blog/');
```

The method returns a `Crawler` object (`Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler`).

To use your own HTTP settings, you may create and pass an HttpClient instance to Goutte. For example, to add a 60 second request timeout:

```
use Goutte\Client;
use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient;

$client = new Client(HttpClient::create(['timeout' => 60]));
```

Click on links:

```
// Click on the "Security Advisories" link
$link = $crawler->selectLink('Security Advisories')->link();
$crawler = $client->click($link);
```

Extract data:

```
// Get the latest post in this category and display the titles
$crawler->filter('h2 > a')->each(function ($node) {
    print $node->text()."\n";
});
```

Submit forms:

```
$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'https://github.com/');
$crawler = $client->click($crawler->selectLink('Sign in')->link());
$form = $crawler->selectButton('Sign in')->form();
$crawler = $client->submit($form, ['login' => 'fabpot', 'password' => 'xxxxxx']);
$crawler->filter('.flash-error')->each(function ($node) {
    print $node->text()."\n";
});
```

More Information
----------------

[](#more-information)

Read the documentation of the [BrowserKit](https://symfony.com/components/BrowserKit), [DomCrawler](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html), and [HttpClient](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_client.html)Symfony Components for more information about what you can do with Goutte.

Pronunciation
-------------

[](#pronunciation)

Goutte is pronounced `goot` i.e. it rhymes with `boot` and not `out`.

Technical Information
---------------------

[](#technical-information)

Goutte is a thin wrapper around the following Symfony Components: [BrowserKit](https://symfony.com/components/BrowserKit), [CssSelector](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/css_selector.html), [DomCrawler](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html), and [HttpClient](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_client.html).

License
-------

[](#license)

Goutte is licensed under the MIT license.

###  Health Score

60

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity83

Widely adopted with strong download metrics

Community60

Healthy contributor diversity

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.1% 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 ~134 days

Recently: every ~303 days

Total

29

Last Release

1144d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.6 → v2.0.02014-05-08

v1.0.7 → v2.0.32014-11-28

v2.0.4 → v3.0.02015-06-21

v3.3.0 → v4.0.02019-12-06

v3.3.1 → v4.0.22021-12-17

PHP version history (5 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.3.0

v2.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

v3.0.0PHP >=5.5.0

v3.3.0PHP ^7.1.3

v4.0.1PHP >=7.1.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47313?v=4)[Fabien Potencier](/maintainers/fabpot)[@fabpot](https://github.com/fabpot)

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---

Tags

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