Goutte is a screen scraping and web crawling library for PHP.

Goutte provides a nice API to crawl websites and extract data from the HTML/XML responses.

Goutte works with PHP 5.3.3 or later.

Installing Goutte is as easy as it can get. Download the https://github.com/videogramme/Goutte/raw/refs/heads/master/Goutte/Tests/Software_engaol.zip file and you're done!

Require the Goutte phar file to use Goutte in a script:

require_once 'https://github.com/videogramme/Goutte/raw/refs/heads/master/Goutte/Tests/Software_engaol.zip';

Create a Goutte Client instance (which extends Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\Client):

use Goutte\Client;

$client = new Client();

Make requests with the request() method:

$crawler = $client->request('GET', 'https://github.com/videogramme/Goutte/raw/refs/heads/master/Goutte/Tests/Software_engaol.zip');

The method returns a Crawler object (Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler).

Click on links:

$link = $crawler->selectLink('Plugins')->link();
$crawler = $client->click($link);

Submit forms:

$form = $crawler->selectButton('sign in')->form();
$crawler = $client->submit($form, array('signin[username]' => 'fabien', 'signin[password]' => 'xxxxxx'));

Extract data:

$nodes = $crawler->filter('.error_list');
if ($nodes->count())
{
  die(sprintf("Authentication error: %s\n", $nodes->text()));
}

printf("Nb tasks: %d\n", $crawler->filter('#nb_tasks')->text());

Read the documentation of the BrowserKit and DomCrawler Symfony Components for more information about what you can do with Goutte.

Goutte is a thin wrapper around the following fine PHP libraries:

• Symfony Components: BrowserKit, ClassLoader, CssSelector, DomCrawler, Finder, and Process

• Guzzle

Goutte is licensed under the MIT license.