Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,057979mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,12211,877anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,0774,851link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,6156,048spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,7287,576wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,52163,432uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
770,39363,432fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
896,99910,434ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.