Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0461,405mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,0809,428anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,0587,445link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6457,894spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,6669,158wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,40617,857uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,205110,764fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
899,72238,919ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.