★ A better way to crawl websites with PHP

139 · Freek Van der Herten · March 2, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
Summary
The blog post introduces the upgraded spatie/crawler PHP package, highlighting its enhanced features for website crawling. It discusses the new API functionalities, improved performance metrics, throttling options to prevent server overload, testing capabilities with fakes, and driver-based JavaScript rendering. The author emphasizes their confidence in the package being the best in the PHP ecosystem, encouraging readers to explore its capabilities on GitHub and support their open-source work.