# FriendsOfPHP/Goutte

Goutte, a simple PHP Web Scraper

Repository: https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/goutte
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-04-01T09:06:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5978, "days_push": 1250, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9192, forks 984 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:28.815883+00:00)

## What it is
Goutte is a PHP screen scraping and web crawling library providing a simple API to crawl websites and extract data from HTML/XML responses. It is a thin wrapper around Symfony BrowserKit, DomCrawler, CssSelector, and HttpClient components, and is now deprecated in favor of Symfony's HttpBrowser.

## Use cases
- scrape product prices from e-commerce sites
- crawl a website and extract links and page titles
- parse HTML tables into structured data with PHP
- submit login forms programmatically and scrape authenticated pages
- extract article text from blog pages
- monitor web pages for content changes

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy PHP codebase already using Goutte
- you want a simple PHP scraper built on Symfony DomCrawler
- you need form submission and link-clicking in a scraping workflow

## When to avoid
- starting a new PHP project - use Symfony BrowserKit HttpBrowser directly since Goutte is deprecated
- you need JavaScript rendering - Goutte only handles static HTML
- you need high-performance large-scale crawling

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, http-client, parser
- domain: web-development, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: php
- tags: deprecated, symfony, dom-crawler, screen-scraping

## Member repositories
- FriendsOfPHP/Goutte (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.815883+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:23:19.519104+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.815883+00:00, sha def8d25777c7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.