Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,0961,555mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,3188,459anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,2016,751link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3327,812spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
510,96921,148wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
624,95414,808uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,39142,305fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
885,95023,980ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.