Web Crawling Gems

#Total RankDaily RankNameSummary
11,1611,592mechanizeThe Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize autom...
25,6365,656anemoneAnemone web-spider framework
36,6577,344link_thumbnailerRuby gem generating thumbnail images from a given URL.
48,5148,113spidrSpidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domain...
511,7499,691wombatGeneric Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages
626,44021,303uptonDon't re-write web scrapers every time. Upton gives you a scraper template that's easy ...
766,89915,928ronin-web-spiderronin-web-spider is a collection of common web spidering routines using the spidr gem.
874,04649,580fake_useragentSimple gem for generating valid web user agents.