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monkeyphp/php-spider
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A basic web spider written in PHP.

0.0.2(9y ago)2761[1 issues](https://github.com/monkeyphp/php-spider/issues)BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=5.3.3

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PhpSpider
=========

[](#phpspider)

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> I needed a really basic spider to crawl a site to warm the cache; this is the result.

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

### Simple

[](#simple)

The simplest way to use PhpSpider is to construct an instance and pass the root url of the site that you wish to crawl to the `Spider::crawl` method.

By design, PhpSpider will only crawl pages that

- Return a `content-type` header of `text\html`
- That are on the same domain as the supplied root

```
use PhpSpider\Spider\Spider;

$spider = new Spider();
$spider->crawl('https://www.example.com');
```

### Advanced

[](#advanced)

If you need to override how PhpSpider works you can add event listeners to be notified, that can then affect how PhpSpider operates.

There are 5 events triggered by PhpSpider

- **Spider::SPIDER\_CRAWL\_PRE** - Triggered before PhpSpider starts to crawl a site.
- **Spider::SPIDER\_CRAWL\_POST** - Triggered one PhpSpider has finished it's crawl.
- **Spider::SPIDER\_CRAWL\_PAGE\_PRE** - Triggered just before a page is crawled
- **Spider::SPIDER\_CRAWL\_PAGE\_POST** - Triggered once a page is crawled
- **Spider::SPIDER\_CRAWL\_PAGE\_ERROR** - Trigged if an error occurs whilst crawling a page

You can find examples in the examples directory included in this repository.

```
    $ php ./examples/example_0.php
```

```
use PhpSpider\Spider\Spider;
use Zend\EventManager\Event;

$listener function ($event) {
    $uri = $event->getParam('uri');
    echo $uri;
};

$spider = new Spider();
$spider->getEventManager()->attach(Spider::SPIDER_CRAWL_PAGE_PRE, $listener, 1000);

$spider->crawl('https://www.example.com');
```

To Run Tests
------------

[](#to-run-tests)

```
$ vendor/bin/phpunit -c tests/phpunit.xml
```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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 ~13 days

Total

2

Last Release

3520d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/cc2ab20dc9cef0e2318a63df0ab2407c5914beb0cca5095443d3fe477dc17cce?d=identicon)[MonkeyPHP](/maintainers/MonkeyPHP)

---

Top Contributors

[![monkeyphp](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1448153?v=4)](https://github.com/monkeyphp "monkeyphp (10 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/monkeyphp-php-spider/health.svg)

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