Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0451,435mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,0769,072anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,0527,810link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6506,581spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,66912,280wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,40176,031uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,16840,711fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
899,96545,533ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.