Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1151,146mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,4016,637anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,2396,007link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3757,286spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,10410,863wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,15656,187uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,709155,027fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
882,66714,477ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.