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phikhi/url-to-text
==================

Extract texts from an url

v1.0.5(3y ago)014MITPHPPHP ^8.1

Since Mar 2Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Url to Text
===========

[](#url-to-text)

> Extract any texts from a distant HTML page 🚧 WORK IN PROGRESS (do not use) 🚧

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require phikhi/url-to-text
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Basic usage

[](#basic-usage)

```
use Phikhi\UrlToText\UrlToText;

$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->extract()
    ->toArray();
/*
[
    'lorem ipsum dolor sit amet',
    'non gloriam sine audentes',
    '...'
];
*/

$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->extract()
    ->toJson();
// ['lorem ipsum dolor sit amet', 'non gloriam sine audentes', '...'];

$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->extract()
    ->toText();
/*
lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
non gloriam sine audentes
...
*/
```

### Advanced usage

[](#advanced-usage)

You can customize the tags you want to parse

```
$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->allow(['div', 'span']) // will add these tags to the existing allowed tags array (H*, p, li, a).
    ->extract()
    ->toArray();
```

If you want to overwrite the allowed tags array instead of extending it, you can pass a second parameter to the `allow()` method

```
$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->allow(['div', 'span'], overwrite: true) // will replace the existing allowed tags array with this one.
    ->extract()
    ->toArray();
```

By default, `script` and `style` tags are automatically stripped before extracting the allowed tags from the DOM, to prevent some weird behavior during extraction. But you can still customize them if you need with the `deny()` method.

```
$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->deny(['svg']) // will add the `svg` tag to the existing denied tags array (script, style).
    ->extract()
    ->toArray();
```

If you want to overwrite the denied tags array instead of extending it, you can pass a second parameter to the `deny()` method

```
$text = (new UrlToText())
    ->from('https://phikhi.com')
    ->deny(['svg'], overwrite: true) // will replace the existing denied tags array with this one.
    ->extract()
    ->toArray();
```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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 ~0 days

Total

6

Last Release

1166d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7c934d50687620397b0f6cc180a078544070ed64f83864f49ff0225ce8f909de?d=identicon)[phikhi](/maintainers/phikhi)

---

Top Contributors

[![phikhi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3796408?v=4)](https://github.com/phikhi "phikhi (17 commits)")

---

Tags

urlparserdomtextextract

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan, Rector

Code StyleLaravel Pint

Type Coverage Yes

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