Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1341,600mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,5287,809anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,3648,555link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3977,789spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,33014,780wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,63734,111uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
772,715111,745fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
873,01721,512ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.