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wernerdweight/curler
====================

cURL helper for PHP

1.1.0(6y ago)11152MITPHPPHP >=7.2.0CI failing

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Curler
======

[](#curler)

cURL helper for PHP

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3918052ca821917ce6fbb43659173d966263a75ff0f9b4926d1ca45117f37161/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7765726e6572647765696768742f4375726c65722e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/wernerdweight/Curler)[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7da25cbed59876c1fd81dce5c2494ec1b01123cd5c030114146601297e4a497c/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f7765726e6572647765696768742f6375726c65722f762f737461626c65)](https://packagist.org/packages/wernerdweight/curler)[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6b6d498a5f1aedddf3a8dd31a54f8257de9ec787e8a3ced32c97eb22464306af/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f7765726e6572647765696768742f6375726c65722f646f776e6c6f616473)](https://packagist.org/packages/wernerdweight/curler)[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5b9073eb33e828315a42f41e2fc294a896f33801171cce0cd9d6a9d8fa0bd734/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f7765726e6572647765696768742f6375726c65722f6c6963656e7365)](https://packagist.org/packages/wernerdweight/curler)

Instalation
-----------

[](#instalation)

1. Download using composer

```
composer require wernerdweight/curler
```

2. Use in your project

```
use WernerDweight\Curler\Curler;
use WernerDweight\Curler\Request;

$curler = new Curler();
$request = (new Request())
    ->setEndpoint('https://some-website.tld')
    ->setMethod('POST')
    ->setPayload(['key' => 'value'])
    ->setHeaders(['Accept: text/html', 'Accept-Encoding: gzip'])
    ->setAuthentication('user', 'password')
;
$response = $curler->request($request);
echo $response->text();  // '...'
var_dump($response->getMetaData()); // array of response metadata (content-type, status...)
```

API
---

[](#api)

#### Curler

[](#curler-1)

- **`request(Request $request): Response`**
    Allows to fetch data according to given `$request`.

#### Request

[](#request)

- **`setEndpoint(string $endpoint): self`**
- **`getEndpoint(): ?string`**
- **`setMethod(string $method): self`**
- **`getMethod(): ?string`**
- **`setPayload(array $payload): self`**
- **`getPayload(): ?array`**
- **`setHeaders(array $headers): self`**
- **`addHeader(string $header): self`**
- **`removeHeader(string $header): bool`**
- **`getHeaders(): ?array`**
- **`setAuthentication(string $user, string $password): self`**
- **`getAuthentication(): ?array`**
- **`setBearerAuthorization(string $token): self`**

#### Response

[](#response)

- **`getMetaData(): WernerDweight\RA\RA`**
    cURL info (see [here](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php)).
- **`ok(): bool`**
    Returns a boolean stating whether the response was successful (status in the range 200-299) or not.
- **`redirected(): bool`**
    Returns whether or not the response is the result of a redirect; that is, redirect count is more than zero.
- **`status(): int`**
    Returns the status code of the response (e.g., 200 for a success).
- **`contentType(): string`**
    Returns the content type of the response (e.g., text/html).
- **`url(): string`**
    Returns the URL of the response.
- **`text(): string`**
    Returns the response as text.
- **`json(): WernerDweight\RA\RA`**Returns the response as RA (see [here](https://github.com/wernerdweight/RA)).

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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 ~33 days

Recently: every ~50 days

Total

7

Last Release

2344d ago

Major Versions

v0.1.0 → v1.0.02019-05-21

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5b1454d4a92d76c33018ef518335ec921cf3eadbe591437c47622510f465c9ed?d=identicon)[wernerdweight](/maintainers/wernerdweight)

---

Top Contributors

[![wernerdweight](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2445436?v=4)](https://github.com/wernerdweight "wernerdweight (13 commits)")

---

Tags

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