Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1271,168mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,4326,725anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,2727,714link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3767,512spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,1576,699wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,26162,419uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
772,084128,013fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
878,62618,004ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.