Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
19731,349mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
24,5985,170anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
35,7245,074link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
49,40514,091spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
59,61716,598wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
623,08590,737uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
771,34390,737fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.
8169,94928,847ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.