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wykleph/html-scraper
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An API for taking json sitemaps generated by the webscraper.io extension, and emulating webscraper.io's scraping behavior.

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HTMLScraper
===========

[](#htmlscraper)

An API for taking json sitemaps generated by the `webscraper.io` extension, and emulating webscraper.io's scraping behavior in PHP.

This is great for creating scraping templates in no time at all..

*I have no affiliation with webscraper.io, so please refer to their documentation and their forums for anything you might need in regards to webscraper.io.*

Installation : `composer require wykleph/html-scraper`

**Note: Child selectors are not supported yet, but it's on the docket!**

To use, require this project with composer, then download [the webscraper.io extension for chrome](http://webscraper.io/). This is what we will use to generate our sitemap for crawling the html.

Once you have the `webscraper.io` extension, you will probably want to learn how to use the `webscraper.io` extension.

Once you have some selectors set up for your sitemap, click on `Sitemap (sitemap-name)`->`Export Sitemap`. The json output is what we will use to instantiate a `SiteMap` object:

```
$SiteMap = new SiteMap($json);
```

The next step is to instantiate a `HtmlScraper` object to consume the `SiteMap` and the HTML you would like to crawl:

```
$scraper = new HtmlScraper($SiteMap, $html);
$selections = $scraper->getSelections();
```

or:

```
$selections = new HtmlScraper($SiteMap, $html)->getSelections();
```

The `$selections` array now contains all of the selections for the `sitemap` that you used for the given `html`.

The `$selections` array should also contain the name of the selector that you set up with `webscraper.io` as the key, so accessing your selections is as easy as grabbing something like `$selections['username-field-name']` or `$selections['phone']`.

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 36% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3798d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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