Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1641,663mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6344,396anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,6688,682link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5116,738spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,75110,866wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,47738,501uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
766,49514,043ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
874,12760,118fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.