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PHP API Reference v0.1.0-rc.10

Functions

generateCitations()

Convert markdown links to numbered citations.

[Example](https://example.com) becomes Example[1] with [1]: <https://example.com> in the reference list. Images ![alt](url) are preserved unchanged.

Signature:

public static function generateCitations(string $markdown): CitationResult

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
markdown string Yes The markdown

Returns: CitationResult


createEngine()

Create a new crawl engine with the given configuration.

If config is null, uses CrawlConfig::default(). Returns an error if the configuration is invalid.

Signature:

public static function createEngine(?CrawlConfig $config = null): CrawlEngineHandle

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
config ?CrawlConfig No The configuration options

Returns: CrawlEngineHandle

Errors: Throws CrawlError.


scrape()

Scrape a single URL, returning extracted page data.

Signature:

public static function scrape(CrawlEngineHandle $engine, string $url): ScrapeResult

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
engine CrawlEngineHandle Yes The crawl engine handle
url string Yes The URL to fetch

Returns: ScrapeResult

Errors: Throws CrawlError.


crawl()

Crawl a website starting from url, following links up to the configured depth.

Signature:

public static function crawl(CrawlEngineHandle $engine, string $url): CrawlResult

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
engine CrawlEngineHandle Yes The crawl engine handle
url string Yes The URL to fetch

Returns: CrawlResult

Errors: Throws CrawlError.


mapUrls()

Discover all pages on a website by following links and sitemaps.

Signature:

public static function mapUrls(CrawlEngineHandle $engine, string $url): MapResult

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
engine CrawlEngineHandle Yes The crawl engine handle
url string Yes The URL to fetch

Returns: MapResult

Errors: Throws CrawlError.


batchScrape()

Scrape multiple URLs concurrently.

Signature:

public static function batchScrape(CrawlEngineHandle $engine, array<string> $urls): array<BatchScrapeResult>

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
engine CrawlEngineHandle Yes The crawl engine handle
urls array<string> Yes The urls

Returns: array<BatchScrapeResult>


batchCrawl()

Crawl multiple seed URLs concurrently, each following links to configured depth.

Signature:

public static function batchCrawl(CrawlEngineHandle $engine, array<string> $urls): array<BatchCrawlResult>

Parameters:

Name Type Required Description
engine CrawlEngineHandle Yes The crawl engine handle
urls array<string> Yes The urls

Returns: array<BatchCrawlResult>


Types

ActionResult

Result from a single page action execution.

Field Type Default Description
actionIndex int Zero-based index of the action in the sequence.
actionType Str The type of action that was executed.
success bool Whether the action completed successfully.
data ?mixed null Action-specific return data (screenshot bytes, JS return value, scraped HTML).
error ?string null Error message if the action failed.

ArticleMetadata

Article metadata extracted from article:* Open Graph tags.

Field Type Default Description
publishedTime ?string null The article publication time.
modifiedTime ?string null The article modification time.
author ?string null The article author.
section ?string null The article section.
tags array<string> [] The article tags.

BatchCrawlResult

Result from a single URL in a batch crawl operation.

Field Type Default Description
url string The seed URL that was crawled.
result ?CrawlResult null The crawl result, if successful.
error ?string null The error message, if the crawl failed.

BatchScrapeResult

Result from a single URL in a batch scrape operation.

Field Type Default Description
url string The URL that was scraped.
result ?ScrapeResult null The scrape result, if successful.
error ?string null The error message, if the scrape failed.

BrowserConfig

Browser fallback configuration.

Field Type Default Description
mode BrowserMode BrowserMode::Auto When to use the headless browser fallback.
endpoint ?string null CDP WebSocket endpoint for connecting to an external browser instance.
timeout float 30000ms Timeout for browser page load and rendering (in milliseconds when serialized).
wait BrowserWait BrowserWait::NetworkIdle Wait strategy after browser navigation.
waitSelector ?string null CSS selector to wait for when wait is Selector.
extraWait ?float null Extra time to wait after the wait condition is met.
Methods
default()

Signature:

public static function default(): BrowserConfig

CachedPage

Cached page data for HTTP response caching.

Field Type Default Description
url string Url
statusCode int Status code
contentType string Content type
body string Body
etag ?string null Etag
lastModified ?string null Last modified
cachedAt int Cached at

CitationReference

Field Type Default Description
index int Index
url string Url
text string Text

CitationResult

Result of citation conversion.

Field Type Default Description
content string Markdown with links replaced by numbered citations.
references array<CitationReference> [] Numbered reference list: (index, url, text).

CookieInfo

Information about an HTTP cookie received from a response.

Field Type Default Description
name string The cookie name.
value string The cookie value.
domain ?string null The cookie domain, if specified.
path ?string null The cookie path, if specified.

CrawlConfig

Configuration for crawl, scrape, and map operations.

Field Type Default Description
maxDepth ?int null Maximum crawl depth (number of link hops from the start URL).
maxPages ?int null Maximum number of pages to crawl.
maxConcurrent ?int null Maximum number of concurrent requests.
respectRobotsTxt bool false Whether to respect robots.txt directives.
userAgent ?string null Custom user-agent string.
stayOnDomain bool false Whether to restrict crawling to the same domain.
allowSubdomains bool false Whether to allow subdomains when stay_on_domain is true.
includePaths array<string> [] Regex patterns for paths to include during crawling.
excludePaths array<string> [] Regex patterns for paths to exclude during crawling.
customHeaders array<string, string> {} Custom HTTP headers to send with each request.
requestTimeout float 30000ms Timeout for individual HTTP requests (in milliseconds when serialized).
maxRedirects int 10 Maximum number of redirects to follow.
retryCount int 0 Number of retry attempts for failed requests.
retryCodes array<int> [] HTTP status codes that should trigger a retry.
cookiesEnabled bool false Whether to enable cookie handling.
auth ?AuthConfig null Authentication configuration.
maxBodySize ?int null Maximum response body size in bytes.
mainContentOnly bool false Whether to extract only the main content from HTML pages.
removeTags array<string> [] CSS selectors for tags to remove from HTML before processing.
mapLimit ?int null Maximum number of URLs to return from a map operation.
mapSearch ?string null Search filter for map results (case-insensitive substring match on URLs).
downloadAssets bool false Whether to download assets (CSS, JS, images, etc.) from the page.
assetTypes array<AssetCategory> [] Filter for asset categories to download.
maxAssetSize ?int null Maximum size in bytes for individual asset downloads.
browser BrowserConfig Browser configuration.
proxy ?ProxyConfig null Proxy configuration for HTTP requests.
userAgents array<string> [] List of user-agent strings for rotation. If non-empty, overrides user_agent.
captureScreenshot bool false Whether to capture a screenshot when using the browser.
downloadDocuments bool true Whether to download non-HTML documents (PDF, DOCX, images, code, etc.) instead of skipping them.
documentMaxSize ?int null Maximum size in bytes for document downloads. Defaults to 50 MB.
documentMimeTypes array<string> [] Allowlist of MIME types to download. If empty, uses built-in defaults.
warcOutput ?string null Path to write WARC output. If None, WARC output is disabled.
browserProfile ?string null Named browser profile for persistent sessions (cookies, localStorage).
saveBrowserProfile bool false Whether to save changes back to the browser profile on exit.
Methods
default()

Signature:

public static function default(): CrawlConfig
validate()

Validate the configuration, returning an error if any values are invalid.

Signature:

public function validate(): void

CrawlEngineHandle

Opaque handle to a configured crawl engine.

Constructed via create_engine with an optional CrawlConfig. All default trait implementations (BFS strategy, in-memory frontier, per-domain throttle, etc.) are used internally.


CrawlPageResult

The result of crawling a single page during a crawl operation.

Field Type Default Description
url string The original URL of the page.
normalizedUrl string The normalized URL of the page.
statusCode int The HTTP status code of the response.
contentType string The Content-Type header value.
html string The HTML body of the response.
bodySize int The size of the response body in bytes.
metadata PageMetadata Extracted metadata from the page.
links array<LinkInfo> [] Links found on the page.
images array<ImageInfo> [] Images found on the page.
feeds array<FeedInfo> [] Feed links found on the page.
jsonLd array<JsonLdEntry> [] JSON-LD entries found on the page.
depth int The depth of this page from the start URL.
stayedOnDomain bool Whether this page is on the same domain as the start URL.
wasSkipped bool Whether this page was skipped (binary or PDF content).
isPdf bool Whether the content is a PDF.
detectedCharset ?string null The detected character set encoding.
markdown ?MarkdownResult null Markdown conversion of the page content.
extractedData ?mixed null Structured data extracted by LLM. Populated when using LlmExtractor.
extractionMeta ?ExtractionMeta null Metadata about the LLM extraction pass (cost, tokens, model).
downloadedDocument ?DownloadedDocument null Downloaded non-HTML document (PDF, DOCX, image, code, etc.).

CrawlResult

The result of a multi-page crawl operation.

Field Type Default Description
pages array<CrawlPageResult> [] The list of crawled pages.
finalUrl string The final URL after following redirects.
redirectCount int The number of redirects followed.
wasSkipped bool Whether any page was skipped during crawling.
error ?string null An error message, if the crawl encountered an issue.
cookies array<CookieInfo> [] Cookies collected during the crawl.
normalizedUrls array<string> [] Normalized URLs encountered during crawling (for deduplication counting).
Methods
uniqueNormalizedUrls()

Returns the count of unique normalized URLs encountered during crawling.

Signature:

public function uniqueNormalizedUrls(): int

DownloadedAsset

A downloaded asset from a page.

Field Type Default Description
url string The original URL of the asset.
contentHash string The SHA-256 content hash of the asset.
mimeType ?string null The MIME type from the Content-Type header.
size int The size of the asset in bytes.
assetCategory AssetCategory AssetCategory::Image The category of the asset.
htmlTag ?string null The HTML tag that referenced this asset (e.g., "link", "script", "img").

DownloadedDocument

A downloaded non-HTML document (PDF, DOCX, image, code file, etc.).

When the crawler encounters non-HTML content and download_documents is enabled, it downloads the raw bytes and populates this struct instead of skipping the resource.

Field Type Default Description
url string The URL the document was fetched from.
mimeType Str The MIME type from the Content-Type header.
content string Raw document bytes. Skipped during JSON serialization.
size int Size of the document in bytes.
filename ?Str null Filename extracted from Content-Disposition or URL path.
contentHash Str SHA-256 hex digest of the content.
headers array<Str, Str> {} Selected response headers.

ExtractionMeta

Metadata about an LLM extraction pass.

Field Type Default Description
cost ?float null Estimated cost of the LLM call in USD.
promptTokens ?int null Number of prompt (input) tokens consumed.
completionTokens ?int null Number of completion (output) tokens generated.
model ?string null The model identifier used for extraction.
chunksProcessed int Number of content chunks sent to the LLM.

FaviconInfo

Information about a favicon or icon link.

Field Type Default Description
url string The icon URL.
rel string The rel attribute (e.g., "icon", "apple-touch-icon").
sizes ?string null The sizes attribute, if present.
mimeType ?string null The MIME type, if present.

FeedInfo

Information about a feed link found on a page.

Field Type Default Description
url string The feed URL.
title ?string null The feed title, if present.
feedType FeedType FeedType::Rss The type of feed.

HeadingInfo

A heading element extracted from the page.

Field Type Default Description
level int The heading level (1-6).
text string The heading text content.

HreflangEntry

An hreflang alternate link entry.

Field Type Default Description
lang string The language code (e.g., "en", "fr", "x-default").
url string The URL for this language variant.

ImageInfo

Information about an image found on a page.

Field Type Default Description
url string The image URL.
alt ?string null The alt text, if present.
width ?int null The width attribute, if present and parseable.
height ?int null The height attribute, if present and parseable.
source ImageSource ImageSource::Img The source of the image reference.

InteractionResult

Result of executing a sequence of page interaction actions.

Field Type Default Description
actionResults array<ActionResult> [] Results from each executed action.
finalHtml string Final page HTML after all actions completed.
finalUrl string Final page URL (may have changed due to navigation).
screenshot ?string null Screenshot taken after all actions, if requested.

JsonLdEntry

A JSON-LD structured data entry found on a page.

Field Type Default Description
schemaType string The @type value from the JSON-LD object.
name ?string null The name value, if present.
raw string The raw JSON-LD string.

LinkInfo

Information about a link found on a page.

Field Type Default Description
url string The resolved URL of the link.
text string The visible text of the link.
linkType LinkType LinkType::Internal The classification of the link.
rel ?string null The rel attribute value, if present.
nofollow bool Whether the link has rel="nofollow".

MapResult

The result of a map operation, containing discovered URLs.

Field Type Default Description
urls array<SitemapUrl> [] The list of discovered URLs.

MarkdownResult

Rich markdown conversion result from HTML processing.

Field Type Default Description
content string Converted markdown text.
documentStructure ?mixed null Structured document tree with semantic nodes.
tables array<mixed> [] Extracted tables with structured cell data.
warnings array<string> [] Non-fatal processing warnings.
citations ?CitationResult null Content with links replaced by numbered citations.
fitContent ?string null Content-filtered markdown optimized for LLM consumption.

PageMetadata

Metadata extracted from an HTML page's <meta> tags and <title> element.

Field Type Default Description
title ?string null The page title from the <title> element.
description ?string null The meta description.
canonicalUrl ?string null The canonical URL from <link rel="canonical">.
keywords ?string null Keywords from <meta name="keywords">.
author ?string null Author from <meta name="author">.
viewport ?string null Viewport content from <meta name="viewport">.
themeColor ?string null Theme color from <meta name="theme-color">.
generator ?string null Generator from <meta name="generator">.
robots ?string null Robots content from <meta name="robots">.
htmlLang ?string null The lang attribute from the <html> element.
htmlDir ?string null The dir attribute from the <html> element.
ogTitle ?string null Open Graph title.
ogType ?string null Open Graph type.
ogImage ?string null Open Graph image URL.
ogDescription ?string null Open Graph description.
ogUrl ?string null Open Graph URL.
ogSiteName ?string null Open Graph site name.
ogLocale ?string null Open Graph locale.
ogVideo ?string null Open Graph video URL.
ogAudio ?string null Open Graph audio URL.
ogLocaleAlternates ?array<string> [] Open Graph locale alternates.
twitterCard ?string null Twitter card type.
twitterTitle ?string null Twitter title.
twitterDescription ?string null Twitter description.
twitterImage ?string null Twitter image URL.
twitterSite ?string null Twitter site handle.
twitterCreator ?string null Twitter creator handle.
dcTitle ?string null Dublin Core title.
dcCreator ?string null Dublin Core creator.
dcSubject ?string null Dublin Core subject.
dcDescription ?string null Dublin Core description.
dcPublisher ?string null Dublin Core publisher.
dcDate ?string null Dublin Core date.
dcType ?string null Dublin Core type.
dcFormat ?string null Dublin Core format.
dcIdentifier ?string null Dublin Core identifier.
dcLanguage ?string null Dublin Core language.
dcRights ?string null Dublin Core rights.
article ?ArticleMetadata null Article metadata from article:* Open Graph tags.
hreflangs ?array<HreflangEntry> [] Hreflang alternate links.
favicons ?array<FaviconInfo> [] Favicon and icon links.
headings ?array<HeadingInfo> [] Heading elements (h1-h6).
wordCount ?int null Computed word count of the page body text.

ProxyConfig

Proxy configuration for HTTP requests.

Field Type Default Description
url string Proxy URL (e.g. "http://proxy:8080", "socks5://proxy:1080").
username ?string null Optional username for proxy authentication.
password ?string null Optional password for proxy authentication.

ResponseMeta

Response metadata extracted from HTTP headers.

Field Type Default Description
etag ?string null The ETag header value.
lastModified ?string null The Last-Modified header value.
cacheControl ?string null The Cache-Control header value.
server ?string null The Server header value.
xPoweredBy ?string null The X-Powered-By header value.
contentLanguage ?string null The Content-Language header value.
contentEncoding ?string null The Content-Encoding header value.

ScrapeResult

The result of a single-page scrape operation.

Field Type Default Description
statusCode int The HTTP status code of the response.
contentType string The Content-Type header value.
html string The HTML body of the response.
bodySize int The size of the response body in bytes.
metadata PageMetadata Extracted metadata from the page.
links array<LinkInfo> [] Links found on the page.
images array<ImageInfo> [] Images found on the page.
feeds array<FeedInfo> [] Feed links found on the page.
jsonLd array<JsonLdEntry> [] JSON-LD entries found on the page.
isAllowed bool Whether the URL is allowed by robots.txt.
crawlDelay ?int null The crawl delay from robots.txt, in seconds.
noindexDetected bool Whether a noindex directive was detected.
nofollowDetected bool Whether a nofollow directive was detected.
xRobotsTag ?string null The X-Robots-Tag header value, if present.
isPdf bool Whether the content is a PDF.
wasSkipped bool Whether the page was skipped (binary or PDF content).
detectedCharset ?string null The detected character set encoding.
mainContentOnly bool Whether main_content_only was active during extraction.
authHeaderSent bool Whether an authentication header was sent with the request.
responseMeta ?ResponseMeta null Response metadata extracted from HTTP headers.
assets array<DownloadedAsset> [] Downloaded assets from the page.
jsRenderHint bool Whether the page content suggests JavaScript rendering is needed.
browserUsed bool Whether the browser fallback was used to fetch this page.
markdown ?MarkdownResult null Markdown conversion of the page content.
extractedData ?mixed null Structured data extracted by LLM. Populated when using LlmExtractor.
extractionMeta ?ExtractionMeta null Metadata about the LLM extraction pass (cost, tokens, model).
screenshot ?string null Screenshot of the page as PNG bytes. Populated when browser is used and capture_screenshot is enabled.
downloadedDocument ?DownloadedDocument null Downloaded non-HTML document (PDF, DOCX, image, code, etc.).

SitemapUrl

A URL entry from a sitemap.

Field Type Default Description
url string The URL.
lastmod ?string null The last modification date, if present.
changefreq ?string null The change frequency, if present.
priority ?string null The priority, if present.

Enums

BrowserMode

When to use the headless browser fallback.

Value Description
Auto Automatically detect when JS rendering is needed and fall back to browser.
Always Always use the browser for every request.
Never Never use the browser fallback.

BrowserWait

Wait strategy for browser page rendering.

Value Description
NetworkIdle Wait until network activity is idle.
Selector Wait for a specific CSS selector to appear in the DOM.
Fixed Wait for a fixed duration after navigation.

AuthConfig

Authentication configuration.

Value Description
Basic HTTP Basic authentication. — Fields: username: string, password: string
Bearer Bearer token authentication. — Fields: token: string
Header Custom authentication header. — Fields: name: string, value: string

LinkType

The classification of a link.

Value Description
Internal A link to the same domain.
External A link to a different domain.
Anchor A fragment-only link (e.g., #section).
Document A link to a downloadable document (PDF, DOC, etc.).

ImageSource

The source of an image reference.

Value Description
Img An <img> tag.
PictureSource A <source> tag inside <picture>.
OgImage An og:image meta tag.
TwitterImage A twitter:image meta tag.

FeedType

The type of a feed (RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed).

Value Description
Rss RSS feed.
Atom Atom feed.
JsonFeed JSON Feed.

AssetCategory

The category of a downloaded asset.

Value Description
Document A document file (PDF, DOC, etc.).
Image An image file.
Audio An audio file.
Video A video file.
Font A font file.
Stylesheet A CSS stylesheet.
Script A JavaScript file.
Archive An archive file (ZIP, TAR, etc.).
Data A data file (JSON, XML, CSV, etc.).
Other An unrecognized asset type.

CrawlEvent

An event emitted during a streaming crawl operation.

Value Description
Page A single page has been crawled. — Fields: 0: CrawlPageResult
Error An error occurred while crawling a URL. — Fields: url: string, error: string
Complete The crawl has completed. — Fields: pagesCrawled: int

Errors

CrawlError

Errors that can occur during crawling, scraping, or mapping operations.

Variant Description
NotFound The requested page was not found (HTTP 404).
Unauthorized The request was unauthorized (HTTP 401).
Forbidden The request was forbidden (HTTP 403).
WafBlocked The request was blocked by a WAF or bot protection (HTTP 403 with WAF indicators).
Timeout The request timed out.
RateLimited The request was rate-limited (HTTP 429).
ServerError A server error occurred (HTTP 5xx).
BadGateway A bad gateway error occurred (HTTP 502).
Gone The resource is permanently gone (HTTP 410).
Connection A connection error occurred.
Dns A DNS resolution error occurred.
Ssl An SSL/TLS error occurred.
DataLoss Data was lost or truncated during transfer.
BrowserError The browser failed to launch, connect, or navigate.
BrowserTimeout The browser page load or rendering timed out.
InvalidConfig The provided configuration is invalid.
Other An unclassified error occurred.