Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0561,292mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,1428,881anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,0888,033link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6066,601spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,74111,173wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,54559,491uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,45459,491fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
896,24016,724ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.