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Boilerplate Removal and Fulltext Extraction from HTML pages.

Rewrite of dotpack/php-boiler-pipe for PHP8.2 and up, with tests.

Installation

composer require pforret/pf-article-extractor

Usage

use Pforret\PfArticleExtractor\ArticleExtractor;

$articleData = ArticleExtractor::getArticle($html);
/*
 * $articleData = Pforret\PfArticleExtractor\Formats\ArticleContentsDTO Object
(
    [title] => Film Podcast: Wicked Little Letters Named Film of the Month
    [content] => UK Film Club was back in March with a new episode of their film podcast. (...)
    [date] =>
    [images] => Array
        (
            [0] => https://static.wixstatic.com/media/.../b19cd0_dde0d59546f84127865267f43994f39b~mv2.jpg
        )

    [links] => Array
        (
            [0] => https://www.chrisolson.co.uk/
            (...)
        )

)

 */

Under the hood

• package accepts a full HTML page as input
• it will walk the DOM tree and try to find the main article content
• it will remove boilerplate content (like headers, footers, sidebars, ...)
• it will try to extract the main article content
• it will try to extract the title, date, images and links from the article

Rights now it's tested with example pages for

• Blogger
• Drupal
• Jekyll
• Mkdocs
• Wix
• WordPress

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