Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1491,759mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6144,999anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,4707,163link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,4296,940spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,61814,022wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,08846,531uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,08814,022ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
873,12961,331fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.