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gidlov/copycat
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A universal scraping tool that can be used for all kinds of data collection. You can decide from where and what you want. All with regular expression. More info on the Github page.

v1.0.5(8y ago)8082.4kLGPLPHP >=5.3.0

Since Aug 4Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/gidlov/copycat)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/gidlov/copycat)[ Docs](http://github.com/gidlov/copycat)[ RSS](/packages/gidlov-copycat/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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 ~26 days

Total

2

Last Release

3180d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5fd82ec2dfc151a6844d826e3cd8216c61f2c265d73c16f6e7f9b4912c0d2e16?d=identicon)[gidlov](/maintainers/gidlov)

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Top Contributors

[![gidlov](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1738943?v=4)](https://github.com/gidlov "gidlov (30 commits)")

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Tags

laravelscrapescrapingimdb

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