Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1401,316mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,5826,807anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,4026,895link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3949,017spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,38620,451wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,765122,967uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,82921,682ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
872,844169,728fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.