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PHP Web Scraping

This list contains PHP libraries related to web scraping and data processing

• PHP Web Scraping
  • Network
  • Web-scraping Frameworks
  • HTML/XML Parsing
  • Text processing
  • Specific Formats Processing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Browser automation and emulation
  • Multiprocessing
  • Queue
  • Cloud Computing
  • Email
  • URL Manipulation
  • Web Content Extracting
  • Asynchronous
  • WebSocket
  • DNS Resolving
  • Computer Vision
  • Geocoding
  • API Clients
  • Other PHP Lists

Network

• Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
• Buzz - Another HTTP client.
• Requests - A simple HTTP library.
• HTTPFul - A chainable HTTP client.
• Goutte - A simple web scraper.

Web-Scraping Frameworks

• TODO

HTML/XML Parsing

• HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
• QueryPath - a jQuery-like library for working with XML and HTML documents in PHP. It now contains support for HTML5 via the HTML5-PHP project.
• DiDOM - super fast HTML parser (because it was build on top of plain PHP).

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
  • Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
  • Hoa String - Another UTF-8 string library.
  • Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
  • Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colours.
  • Text - A text manipulation library.
  • Flux - A regular expression building library.
• Transliteration
  • Urlify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
  • Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs.
• User-agent
  • Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
  • Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
  • UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
• Unites of measure
  • ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
  • PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure.
  • PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.
• Phone number
  • LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• CSV
  • CSV - A CSV data manipulation library.
• Office
  • PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
  • PHPExcel - A library for working with Microsoft Excel documents.
  • PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint documents.
  • ExcelAnt - A library for manipulating Microsoft Excel documents.
• Markdown
  • PHP Markdown - A Markdown parser.
  • CommonMark PHP - A Markdown parser which supports the full CommonMark spec.
  • Parsedown - Another Markdown parser.
  • Ciconia - Another Markdown parser that supports Github flavoured Markdown.
  • Cebe Markdown - An fast and extensible Markdown parser.
• BBCode
  • Decoda - A lightweight lexical string parser for BBCode styled markup.
• JSON
  • JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• vCard
  • vobject - The VObject library allows you to easily parse and manipulate iCalendar and vCard objects.
• File Type Detection
  • Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library.
  • Canal - A library to determine internet media types.
  • Apache MIME Types - A library that parses Apache MIME types.
• GeoJSON
  • GeoJSON - A GeoJSON implementation.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• PHP NlpTools - Natural Language Processing Tools in PHP
• nlpTools - Natural Language Processing Toolkit for PHP

Browser automation and emulation

• php-webdriver - A php client for webdriver.
• PHP PhantomJS - Execute PhantomJS commands through PHP
• Mink - universal API for multiple browser emulators (selenium, zombie.js, goutte)

Multiprocessing

• Spork - A process forking library.

Asynchronous

Libraries for asynchronous networking programming.

• React - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• Rx.PHP - A reactive extension library.
• Hoa EventSource - An event source library.
• Evenement - An event dispatcher library.
• Event - An event library with a focus on domain events.
• Broadway - An event source and CQRS library.

Queue

• Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library.
• PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library.
• Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
• Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library.

Cloud Computing

• TODO

Email

Libraries for parsing email.

• Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser library.
• Email Validator - A small email address validation library.

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• Purl - A URL manipulation library.
• PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library.
• Url - A simple URL manipulation library.

Web Content Extracting

• Text and Meta Data from Web Documents
  • Essence - A library for extracting web media.
  • Embera - An Oembed consumer library.
  • Embed - An awesome library for getting useful information from a webpage.
• Video
  • Youtube-Downloader - PHP script for downloading videos from youtube; also parsing youtube feed into RSS enclosures for podcatchers

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

• Ratchet - A web socket library.
• Hoa WebSocket - Another web socket library.
• Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library.

DNS Resolving

• Net_DNS2 - Native PHP DNS Resolver and Updater

Computer Vision

• OpenCV-for-PHP - An OpenCV binding for PHP

Geocoding

• GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
• GeoTools - A library of geo-related tools.

API Clients

Libraries for working with remote web-scraping API

• diffbot-php-client - Diffbot API client

Other PHP lists

• awesome-php