roach-php/core

The complete web scraping toolkit for PHP.

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🐴 Roach

A complete web scraping toolkit for PHP

About

Roach is a complete web scraping toolkit for PHP. It is heavily inspired (read: a shameless clone) of the popular Scrapy package for Python.

Installation

Install the package via composer

composer require roach-php/core

Documentation

The full documentation can be found here.

Contributing

Please read our Contribution Guide before opening issues or pull requests.

Credits

License

MIT

crawling

php

web-scraping

Significant stargazers

Marcel Pociot

4,054 followers · starred Sep 2022

Fabien Villepinte

34 followers · starred Apr 2022

Ayesh Karunaratne

277 followers · starred Apr 2022

Owen Voke

372 followers · starred Apr 2022

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