Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0851,494mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,2658,292anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,1627,280link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,4256,317spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,87312,114wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,85623,078uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,079107,464fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
887,62135,352ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.