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jez500/web-scraper-for-laravel
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A web scraper for laravel

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Web Scraper for Laravel
=======================

[](#web-scraper-for-laravel)

A package to make it easier to scrape external web pages using laravel.

Key Features
------------

[](#key-features)

- Support for standard HTTP requests (Using Laravel's HTTP client)
- Support for scraping javascript rendered pages (Using )
- Rotating user agents to avoid being blocked
- Support for extracting data using CSS selectors
- Support for extracting data using XPath expressions
- Support for extracting data using dot notation from JSON responses
- Support for extracting data using regular expressions
- Caching responses to avoid repeated requests

Usage examples
--------------

[](#usage-examples)

```
use Jez500\WebScraperForLaravel\Facades\WebScraper;

// Get an instance of the scraper with the body of the page loaded.
$scraper = WebScraper::http()->from('https://example.com')->get();

// Get the full page body
$body = $scraper->getBody();

// Get the first title element
$title = $scraper->getSelector('title')->first();

// Get the content attribute of the first meta tag with property og:image
$image = $scraper->getSelector('meta[property=og:image]|content')->first();

// Get all paragraph innerHtml as an array
$links = $scraper->getSelector('p')->all();

// Get the first h1 element using XPath
$h1 = $scraper->getXpath('//h1')->first();

// Get the href attribute of the first link using XPath
$linkHref = $scraper->getXpath('//a', 'attr', ['href'])->first();

 // Get values from the page via regex
$author = $scraper->getRegex('~"user"\:"(.*)"~')->first();

// Get JSON data
$author = WebScraper::http()
    ->from('https://example.com/page.json')
    ->get()
    ->getJson('user.name')
    ->first();

// Get title from a javascript rendered page
$title = WebScraper::api()
    ->from('https://example.com')
    ->get()
    ->getSelector('title')
    ->first();
```

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require jez500/web-scraper-for-laravel
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

PRs are welcome! It's a good idea to run coding standards and tests locally before submitting a PR. This can be done with:

```
composer analyse
composer test
```

Author
------

[](#author)

[Jeremy Graham](https://github.com/jez500)

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 84.6% 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 ~46 days

Recently: every ~86 days

Total

10

Last Release

51d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e3c0bb30ee888a2896903c8da900523f7163c2f64191961ec1c3476fa48d3c89?d=identicon)[jez500](/maintainers/jez500)

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

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