iserter/php-goose

PHP 8+ article/content extractor. replacement for scotteh/php-goose (Goose)

dev-main 2025-10-10 19:15 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1|^8.2|^8.3|^8.4
• ext-dom: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.0|^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.0

MIT

• Ilyas Serter

• parser
• article
• content extraction
• readability
• goose

README

scotteh/php-goose is no longer maintained, so I created this alternative that supports the recent PHP versions.

There may be some issues, but so far, it's working 'ok'. Feel free to contribute.

• Extracts title, description, canonical URL, main image, and cleaned article text
• Minimal dependencies; works in any PHP app (framework-agnostic)
• DOMDocument + XPath heuristics similar to Goose/Readability techniques

Quick start

use Iserter\Goose\Goose;

$goose = new Goose();
$article = $goose->extract('https://example.com/some-article');

echo $article->getTitle();

You can also pass raw HTML:

$article = $goose->extract($html, 'https://iserter.com');

Installation

Add the path repository to your root composer.json and require dev-main while developing locally.

composer require iserter/php-goose dev-main

License

MIT