Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1581,354mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6265,920anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,6457,524link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5098,593spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,7269,613wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,35652,183uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
768,01316,016ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
873,761144,706fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.