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Boilerplate Removal and Fulltext Extraction from HTML pages 0.3.4(2mo ago)41.3k↓25%MITHTMLPHP ^8.2CI failing Since Jun 2Pushed 2mo agoCompare [ Source](https://github.com/pforret/pf-article-extractor)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/pforret/pf-article-extractor)[ RSS](/packages/pforret-pf-article-extractor/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (3)Dependencies (3)Versions (18)Used By (0) pforret/pf-article-extractor ============================ [](#pforretpf-article-extractor) [![Tests](https://github.com/pforret/pf-article-extractor/actions/workflows/run-tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pforret/pf-article-extractor/actions)[![GitHub Release](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/09e24494c31187ce21823cf6b82890e38492282e65e1f45025b010e35b7ba7bc/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f762f72656c656173652f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/09e24494c31187ce21823cf6b82890e38492282e65e1f45025b010e35b7ba7bc/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f762f72656c656173652f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)[![GitHub Tag](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f0258d1e5e2e6ef3511cd560bb5ee80e3feef9584e47c009b5f34a546fffa7df/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f762f7461672f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f0258d1e5e2e6ef3511cd560bb5ee80e3feef9584e47c009b5f34a546fffa7df/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f762f7461672f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)[![GitHub commit activity](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ea1bc6a4dc048bb2477a0f486180ddf5d286f257ebbef22b9dafd207662d996a/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f636f6d6d69742d61637469766974792f792f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ea1bc6a4dc048bb2477a0f486180ddf5d286f257ebbef22b9dafd207662d996a/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f636f6d6d69742d61637469766974792f792f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)[![Packagist Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ef185fd9ceecd304f5a351cb93a12d1ba524d3de485bff67c5913aa4327e944/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)](https://packagist.org/packages/pforret/pf-article-extractor)[![PHP](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d147c5bc4bc4956647b06838470b687d65dbf54cc4a8f098a14b8ecb66ff6148/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f7068702d2532333737374242342e7376673f6c6f676f3d706870266c6f676f436f6c6f723d7768697465)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d147c5bc4bc4956647b06838470b687d65dbf54cc4a8f098a14b8ecb66ff6148/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f7068702d2532333737374242342e7376673f6c6f676f3d706870266c6f676f436f6c6f723d7768697465)[![GitHub License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/19e795194d73111f0407a94ade3d96e5aaefd1ae810f7f0a4848fd926970eabe/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f6c6963656e73652f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/19e795194d73111f0407a94ade3d96e5aaefd1ae810f7f0a4848fd926970eabe/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f6c6963656e73652f70666f727265742f70662d61727469636c652d657874726163746f72) [![](assets/unsplash.squeeze.jpg)](assets/unsplash.squeeze.jpg) Boilerplate Removal and Fulltext Extraction from HTML pages. Rewrite of `dotpack/php-boiler-pipe` for PHP8.2 and up, with tests. Installation ------------ [](#installation) ``` composer require pforret/pf-article-extractor ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) ``` use Pforret\PfArticleExtractor\ArticleExtractor; $articleData = ArticleExtractor::getArticle($html); /* * $articleData = Pforret\PfArticleExtractor\Formats\ArticleContentsDTO Object ( [title] => Film Podcast: Wicked Little Letters Named Film of the Month [content] => UK Film Club was back in March with a new episode of their film podcast. (...) [date] => [images] => Array ( [0] => https://static.wixstatic.com/media/.../b19cd0_dde0d59546f84127865267f43994f39b~mv2.jpg ) [links] => Array ( [0] => https://www.chrisolson.co.uk/ (...) ) ) */ ``` Under the hood -------------- [](#under-the-hood) - package accepts a full HTML page as input - it will walk the DOM tree and try to find the main article content - it will remove boilerplate content (like headers, footers, sidebars, ...) - it will try to extract the main article content - it will try to extract the title, date, images and links from the article Rights now it's tested with example pages for - Blogger - Drupal - Jekyll - Mkdocs - Wix - WordPress Similar packages ---------------- [](#similar-packages) - [beautifulsoup4](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/) - Python, MIT - [html-text](https://pypi.org/project/html-text/) - Python, MIT - [kohlschutter/boilerpipe](https://github.com/kohlschutter/boilerpipe) - Java, Apache 2.0 - [fivefilters/readability.php](https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php) - PHP, GPL-3.0 - [miso-belica/jusText](https://github.com/miso-belica/jusText) - Python, BSD2 - [codelucas/newspaper](https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper) - Python, Apache ### Health Score 45 — FairBetter than 92% of packages Maintenance84 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity23 Limited adoption so far Community10 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity51 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 91.1% 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 ~41 days Recently: every ~155 days Total 16 Last Release 83d ago ### Community Maintainers ![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/474312?v=4)[Peter Forret](/maintainers/pforret)[@pforret](https://github.com/pforret) --- Top Contributors [![pforret](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/474312?v=4)](https://github.com/pforret "pforret (51 commits)")[![dotpack](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1175814?v=4)](https://github.com/dotpack "dotpack (3 commits)")[![claude](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81847?v=4)](https://github.com/claude "claude (1 commits)")[![doersino](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1944410?v=4)](https://github.com/doersino "doersino (1 commits)") --- Tags extractorhtmlphphtmlextract ### Code Quality TestsPHPUnit Code StyleLaravel Pint ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/pforret-pf-article-extractor/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/pforret-pf-article-extractor/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/pforret-pf-article-extractor) ``` ### Alternatives [spatie/laravel-html A fluent html builder 8376.4M72](/packages/spatie-laravel-html)[ckeditor/ckeditor JavaScript WYSIWYG web text editor. 5234.2M76](/packages/ckeditor-ckeditor)[caxy/php-htmldiff A library for comparing two HTML files/snippets and highlighting the differences using simple HTML. 21520.9M15](/packages/caxy-php-htmldiff)[yajra/laravel-datatables-html Laravel DataTables HTML builder plugin 2899.6M48](/packages/yajra-laravel-datatables-html)[wa72/htmlpagedom jQuery-inspired DOM manipulation extension for Symfony's Crawler 3383.9M34](/packages/wa72-htmlpagedom)[tinymce/tinymce Web based JavaScript HTML WYSIWYG editor control. 1697.5M105](/packages/tinymce-tinymce) PHPackages © 2026 [Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)