Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1341,483mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,5037,020anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,3277,738link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,3948,422spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,26117,068wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
625,53138,910uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
772,56938,910fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
874,27322,562ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.