Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1321,469mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,4939,015anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,3177,556link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3895,979spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,25410,765wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,47518,683uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
772,48583,225fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
874,98125,647ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.