Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1541,546mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6306,242anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,4855,623link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5416,940spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,65713,935wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,14352,349uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
769,62421,663ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
873,20929,880fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.