Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0551,261mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,1048,935anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,0678,011link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6367,584spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,69820,489wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,45455,375uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,27155,375fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
898,26416,037ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.