Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0331,436mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
24,9886,482anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
35,9646,030link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,7456,451spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,50113,321wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,13540,310uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
769,68340,310fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
8106,5847,666ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.