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markuspoerschke/extractum
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Extract information from web pages.

1.0.3(4y ago)41.1k1[6 PRs](https://github.com/markuspoerschke/extractum/pulls)MITPHPPHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

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Extractum
=========

[](#extractum)

*Extractum* is a PHP library that extracts information from web pages.

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require markuspoerschke/extractum
```

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$uri = 'https://www.example.com/';
$html = file_get_contents($uri);

$extractor = new Extractum\Extractor();
$essence = $extractor->extract($html, $uri);
```

Extracted Information
---------------------

[](#extracted-information)

The extracted information are returned as an object of type `Extractum\Essence`.

PropertyDescription`date`The date when the web page was published.`description`Normally the meta description or any other excerpt.`image`The URL to the preview image. Normally defined as a Open Graph attribute.`language`The two character language code of the HTML tag.`links`All links within the main content.`parsedDate`A `DateTimeImmutable` object if `date``text`Unformatted text of the main content. All new lines and not needed spaces are removed.`title`The web pages’s title. This is normally the content of the first `h1` tag.License
-------

[](#license)

This package is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance29

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88.5% 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 ~328 days

Total

5

Last Release

705d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

extractorhacktoberfesthtml-parserinformation-extractionreadabilityextractorscraperreadability

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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