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florence/scrapa
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A simple php web scraper package

v1.0(10y ago)6131MITPHP

Since Apr 18Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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\#WebScrapa

\###DISCLAIMER This package was put together for learning purposes only.

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A simple PHP web scraper package -

Most websites do not offer the functionality to save a copy of the data which they display to your computer. The only option then is to manually copy and paste the data displayed by the website in your browser to a local file in your computer - a very tedious job which can take many hours or sometimes days to complete. Web Scraping is the technique of automating this process.

WebScrapa is a simple web scraper package written with PHP. It uses cURL to request and download a webpage. The downloaded webpage is converted to XML DOM object and XPath is used to navigate through elements in the XML DOM object.

\##Installation

```
composer require "florence/scrapa: v1.0"

```

\##Usage

- Create an instance of the Scrap class:

    ```
      $url = 'https://www.youtubecom/JustinBieber/about';
      $query = '//ul[@class="about-custom-links"]//a[@class="about-channel-link "]/@href';

      $scrap = new Scrap($url, $query);

    ```

Learn about XPath and how to scrape the elements based on their tags and attributes, such as CSS classes and IDs.

- Use the toArrayScrapDOM method to get the results of your query in array format

    ```
      print_r($scrap->toArrayScrapDOM());

    ```
- Use the toStringScrapDOM method to get the results of your query in string format

    ```
      print_r($scrap->toStringScrapDOM())

    ```

Run the example file
--------------------

[](#run-the-example-file)

clone the repo

```
git clone https://github.com/andela-fokosun/webscrapa

```

run

```
composer install

```

from your terminal, run:

```
php example.php

```

run tests

```
vendor/bin/phpunit

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3679d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1a6cc40b038a8d47c9ce56d2f3fd2db84d4f4b606403e65c2087416663c05796?d=identicon)[florenxe](/maintainers/florenxe)

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Top Contributors

[![fokosun](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7254731?v=4)](https://github.com/fokosun "fokosun (49 commits)")

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Tags

phpTDDOOPweb-scraping PHPPackage

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