Hello World!
Page rendered in 0.11979s using 6 queries.'); print $crawler->filterXPath('descendant-or-self::body/p')->text(); If you are also using the CssSelector component, you can use CSS Selectors instead of XPath expressions: use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler; $crawler = new Crawler(); $crawler->addContent('Hello World!
Page rendered in 0.11979s using 6 queries.'); print $crawler->filter('body > p')->text(); Resources --------- You can run the unit tests with the following command: $ cd path/to/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/ $ composer.phar install $ phpunit