Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0671,152mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,1976,292anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,1196,468link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5546,004spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,80617,738wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,66348,527uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,73048,527fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
892,1546,736ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.