Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0211,358mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
24,9106,023anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
35,8936,358link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6134,689spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,3529,618wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
623,93017,391uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
769,06721,758fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
8121,44934,713ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.