Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1401,714mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,5977,626anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,4199,016link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,4039,179spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,4108,947wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,95812,641uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,32422,832ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
873,077106,871fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.