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sukohi/shellless
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A PHP package to extract readable text from HTML.

1.0.0(9y ago)030MITPHP

Since Mar 13Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Shellless
=========

[](#shellless)

A PHP package to extract readable text from HTML.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Execute the next command.

```
composer require sukohi/shellless:1.*

```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
use Sukohi\Shellless\Shellless;

$html = file_get_contents('http://example.com/');
$shellless = new Shellless();
$result = $shellless->extract($html);

echo $result->title;        // Page title

echo $result->best_text;    // The longest text

echo $result->full_text;    // Joined text if more than 100 characters length.

print_r($result->all_texts, true);

```

Options
=======

[](#options)

```
$shellless->setOptions([
    'join_step' => 5,
    'min_text_length' => 100
]);

```

Algorithm
=========

[](#algorithm)

1. Join close texts if less than 5 HTML tags between them.
2. Pick up texts if more than 100 characters length.

License
=======

[](#license)

This package is licensed under the MIT License.
Copyright 2017 Sukohi Kuhoh

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 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

2

Last Release

3350d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2980d59b309d45df3f2e6e51b1d336614da063240b8f76f873f287cd745ec5db?d=identicon)[Sukohi](/maintainers/Sukohi)

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Top Contributors

[![SUKOHI](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5362394?v=4)](https://github.com/SUKOHI "SUKOHI (2 commits)")

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