README

WebParser is an ORM-style web scraping package for Laravel, designed to make DOM parsing simple and intuitive. With a fluent, chainable API, WebParser lets you effortlessly navigate, select, and extract data from HTML documents, bringing the ease of database querying to web scraping.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require ngfw/webparser

Usage

Here's how you can start using WebParser:

use Ngfw\Webparser\Facades\WebParser;


// Initialize WebParser with a URL
$webParser = WebParser::fromUrl('https://laravel.com/');

// Extract the page title
$pageTitle = $webParser->select('text')->where('title')->first();
echo $pageTitle;

// Extract the content of the meta description
$metaDescription = $webParser->whereAttribute('name', 'description')->pluck('content')->first();
echo $metaDescription;

// Extract the first H1 tag's text content
$firstH1 = $webParser->select('text')->where('h1')->first();
echo $firstH1;

// Find an H2 element within a complex class structure and extract its text
$complexH2 = $webParser->where('.relative .max-w-screen-xl .w-full .mx-auto .xl:px-5')->find('h2')->select('text')->first();
echo $complexH2;

// Extract the text from all H2 tags on the page
$allH2Texts = $webParser->select('text')->where('h2')->get();
print_r($allH2Texts);

// Extract the sources (src) of all images on the page
$imageSources = $webParser->where('img')->pluck('src')->all();
print_r($imageSources);

Testing

To run the tests, use:

vendor/bin/phpunit

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email the author instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Nick G
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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