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skylarkelty/purity5
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Purity5 is a HTML5 parser, with a similar interface to jQuery

1.1.0(12y ago)213[1 issues](https://github.com/SkylarKelty/Purity5/issues)Apache License v2.0PHPPHP >=5.3

Since Aug 11Pushed 12y ago1 watchersCompare

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Purity5 is a HTML5 query library, with a similar interface to jQuery.

To use, simply include Purity5 and use like so:

```
$html = Purity5::parse($markup);
$title = $html("title");
$table_headings = $html("body table tr th");
$first_table_headings = $html("body table tr th:first-child");
$active_links = $html("body a[class=active]");
$active_current_links = $html("body a[class=active+current]");
```

### Supported Selectors

[](#supported-selectors)

- a > b
- a + b
- -
- .a
- \#a
- a.b
- a#b
- .a.b
- a:first-child
- a:last-child
- a:nth-child(num|even|odd)
- a\[attr='val'\]

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 31% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.5% 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4705d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5101668?v=4)[Skylar Kelty](/maintainers/SkylarKelty)[@SkylarKelty](https://github.com/SkylarKelty)

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Top Contributors

[![SkylarKelty](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5101668?v=4)](https://github.com/SkylarKelty "SkylarKelty (85 commits)")[![keiouu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/725383?v=4)](https://github.com/keiouu "keiouu (4 commits)")

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Tags

parserHTML5

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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