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gavinggordon/sorcerer
=====================

An easy-to-use PHP class for scraping webpages' source code.

1.0.0(9y ago)118MITPHP

Since Jan 14Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Sorcerer
========

[](#sorcerer)

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Description
-----------

[](#description)

An easy-to-use PHP class for scraping webpages' source code.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
	$ composer require gavinggordon/sorcerer

```

### Examples

[](#examples)

#### Insantiation

[](#insantiation)

```
	include( 'vendor/autoload.php' );

	use GGG\Http\Data\Collection\Sorcerer as Sorcerer;

	$scraper = new Sorcerer();
```

#### Configuration

[](#configuration)

```
	$url = 'http://www.testurl.com/index.php';

	$regexes = [
		'/\]+?\>(.+)\/i',
		'/\]+?)[\s\/]*?\>/i'
	];

	$savefile = __DIR__ . './testurl-scrapedata.txt';

	$scraper->configure( $url, $regexes, $savefile );
```

### Run

[](#run)

If no filepath was set for "$savefile",...

```
	$data = $scraper->scrape();

	print_r( $data );
```

...the scraped data will be returned.

If a filepath was set for "$savefile",...

```
	$scraper->scrape();
```

...the scraped data will be saved to the file which you specified.

#### Issues

[](#issues)

If you have any issues at all, please post your findings in the issues page at .

#### License

[](#license)

This package utilizes the MIT License.

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

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

3402d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0265c11e917254193d286a481b3fa7794c4dd83ba29f71d239a19c1724956566?d=identicon)[gavinggordon](/maintainers/gavinggordon)

---

Top Contributors

[![gavinggordon](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7691513?v=4)](https://github.com/gavinggordon "gavinggordon (8 commits)")

---

Tags

httpphpinspectioncollectionwebsitewebpagescraperweb crawlingcrawlingscrapingweb-scraping web-crawlersource-codev1.0.0data collectinghtml codeinvestigation

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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