Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0191,251mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
24,9067,062anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
35,8896,150link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6434,089spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,34136,143wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
623,933136,605uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
769,09277,462fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
8121,71523,541ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.