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vhs/roach-core
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A complete web scraping toolkit for PHP

1.0.0(1y ago)0151MITPHPPHP ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0

Since Jan 24Pushed 1y agoCompare

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 🐴 Roach
=========

[](#-----roach)

[ ![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/38563bce27161655ed123c079a4c8b52393c40bc479ea22fafaef3d171638546/687474703a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f726f6163682d7068702f636f72652f76)](https://packagist.org/packages/roach-php/core)[ ![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3df3ebb4410df979908ae9e4f3cfa61f43e81695022f45c0577c99f4f5e63755/687474703a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f726f6163682d7068702f636f72652f646f776e6c6f616473)](https://packagist.org/packages/roach-php/core)[ ![](https://github.com/roach-php/core/actions/workflows/run-tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/roach-php/core/actions/workflows/run-tests.yml)

A complete web scraping toolkit for PHP

About
-----

[](#about)

Roach is a complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. It is heavily inspired (read: a shameless clone) of the popular [Scrapy](https://docs.scrapy.org)package for Python.

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

[](#installation)

Install the package via composer

```
composer require vhs/roach-core
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

The full documentation can be found [here](https://roach-php.dev).

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please read our [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/roach-php/core/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) before opening issues or pull requests.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Kai Sassnowski](https://github.com/ksassnowski)
- [All contributors](https://github.com/roach-php/core/contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance42

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 79.5% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

479d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c655f8ff1687b3f3a9156d917431f14c05dbc187e19e11201348c894afb35045?d=identicon)[osaris-uk](/maintainers/osaris-uk)

---

Top Contributors

[![ksassnowski](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5139098?v=4)](https://github.com/ksassnowski "ksassnowski (229 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (38 commits)")[![github-actions[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/15368?v=4)](https://github.com/github-actions[bot] "github-actions[bot] (4 commits)")[![john-dent](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/24832003?v=4)](https://github.com/john-dent "john-dent (4 commits)")[![aaronflorey](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/948073?v=4)](https://github.com/aaronflorey "aaronflorey (2 commits)")[![chrismcintosh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2763551?v=4)](https://github.com/chrismcintosh "chrismcintosh (2 commits)")[![daikazu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4039367?v=4)](https://github.com/daikazu "daikazu (1 commits)")[![Daanra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6588838?v=4)](https://github.com/Daanra "Daanra (1 commits)")[![inxilpro](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21592?v=4)](https://github.com/inxilpro "inxilpro (1 commits)")[![corbeil](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3542325?v=4)](https://github.com/corbeil "corbeil (1 commits)")[![bangnokia](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5652494?v=4)](https://github.com/bangnokia "bangnokia (1 commits)")[![michaelrog](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/102379?v=4)](https://github.com/michaelrog "michaelrog (1 commits)")[![ndeblauw](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4344869?v=4)](https://github.com/ndeblauw "ndeblauw (1 commits)")[![ricardobarantini](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1111361?v=4)](https://github.com/ricardobarantini "ricardobarantini (1 commits)")[![sweptsquash](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9886472?v=4)](https://github.com/sweptsquash "sweptsquash (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Type Coverage Yes

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