Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1181,120mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,42212,107anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,2505,209link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,36710,670spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,13613,393wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,21126,023uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,83175,336fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
880,48119,316ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.