Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1361,553mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,5576,831anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,3747,122link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3877,521spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,36012,771wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,71151,002uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
772,31224,887ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
872,73851,002fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.