Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0811,486mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,2517,509anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,1386,960link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,4505,645spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,84413,865wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,77936,876uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,96336,876fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
888,40820,917ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.