Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0651,437mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,1868,691anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,1148,464link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5655,946spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,79527,564wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,63967,963uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,68867,963fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
893,93630,873ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.