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🚨 This project is not maintained anymore

As I write these lines, it's been nearly two years since the latest release of PuPHPeteer. Despite the enthusiasm around this project, I no longer have the motivation to support its development, mainly because it never really had any use to me. So its time to be honest with you, PuPHPeteer is no longer maintained.

However, here's a list of forks maintained by the community:

• zoonru/puphpeteer
• NigelCunningham/puphpeteer

If you create a fork and plan to maintain it, let me know and I will link it here.

PuPHPeteer

A Puppeteer bridge for PHP, supporting the entire API. Based on Rialto, a package to manage Node resources from PHP.

Here are some examples borrowed from Puppeteer's documentation and adapted to PHP's syntax:

Example - navigating to https://example.com and saving a screenshot as example.png:

Example - evaluate a script in the context of the page:

Requirements and installation

This package requires PHP >= 7.3 and Node >= 8.

Install it with these two command lines:

Notable differences between PuPHPeteer and Puppeteer

Puppeteer's class must be instantiated

Instead of requiring Puppeteer:

You have to instantiate the Puppeteer class:

This will create a new Node process controlled by PHP.

You can also pass some options to the constructor, see Rialto's documentation. PuPHPeteer also extends these options:

No need to use the await keyword

With PuPHPeteer, every method call or property getting/setting is synchronous.

Some methods have been aliased

The following methods have been aliased because PHP doesn't support the $ character in method names:

• $ => querySelector
• $$ => querySelectorAll
• $x => querySelectorXPath
• $eval => querySelectorEval
• $$eval => querySelectorAllEval

Use these aliases just like you would have used the original methods:

Evaluated functions must be created with JsFunction

Functions evaluated in the context of the page must be written with the JsFunction class, the body of these functions must be written in JavaScript instead of PHP.

Exceptions must be caught with ->tryCatch

If an error occurs in Node, a Node\FatalException will be thrown and the process closed, you will have to create a new instance of Puppeteer.

To avoid that, you can ask Node to catch these errors by prepending your instruction with ->tryCatch:

Instead, a Node\Exception will be thrown, the Node process will stay alive and usable.

License

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

Logo attribution

PuPHPeteer's logo is composed of:

• Puppet by Luis Prado from the Noun Project.
• Elephant by Lluisa Iborra from the Noun Project.

Thanks to Laravel News for picking the icons and colors of the logo.