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laurentvw/lavacrawler
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A web scraper for PHP to easily extract data from web pages

v2.3.1(8y ago)1897MITPHP >=5.3.0

Since Mar 23Compare

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###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.4% 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 ~132 days

Recently: every ~253 days

Total

12

Last Release

2980d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.2 → 2.0.02015-04-25

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

v2.1.1PHP >=5.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f015c31c72ce5e11636b4a6072db49fb9abd3c1ffbbc08ed39094164ced56d25?d=identicon)[Laurentvw](/maintainers/Laurentvw)

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Top Contributors

[![Laurentvw](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50680?v=4)](https://github.com/Laurentvw "Laurentvw (62 commits)")[![kraffslol](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/152176?v=4)](https://github.com/kraffslol "kraffslol (1 commits)")

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Tags

parserdatacrawlercontenttextparseextractspiderscrapeMatchextractorscrapermatchercrawlingHarvestscrapingmining

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