Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1641,742mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6334,089anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,6746,952link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5086,678spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,74810,764wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,51024,745uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
765,92818,508ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
874,18936,893fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.