10

8

6

4

2


8.9
0.0
Mechanize

7.5
0.0
anemone

7.2
0.0
Upton

6.5

3.0
Wombat

6.3

4.8
FastImage

6.0

5.3
MetaInspector

13 Web Crawling gems and projects

  • Mechanize

    8.9 0.0 L4 Ruby
    Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.

  • anemone

    7.5 0.0 L5 Ruby
    Ruby library and CLI for crawling websites.

  • Upton

    7.2 0.0 L5 Ruby
    A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping.

    • Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
    Promoted scoutapm.com

  • Wombat

    6.5 3.0 L5 Ruby
    Web scraper with an elegant DSL that parses structured data from web pages.

  • FastImage

    6.3 4.8 L5 Ruby
    FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed

  • MetaInspector

    6.0 5.3 L5 Ruby
    Ruby gem for web scraping purposes.

  • pismo

    5.5 0.0 L5 Ruby
    Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

  • LinkThumbnailer

    4.8 3.4 L5 Ruby
    Ruby gem that generates thumbnail images and videos from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.

  • Screencap

    3.2 0.0 JavaScript
    A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.

  • instabot.rb

    2.5 0.0 Ruby
    An instagram bot works without instagram api, only needs your username and password. written in ruby

  • The Hawker Ruby gem

    1.6 0.0 Ruby
    Get the profile information from Github, Twitter or Instagram without the API

  • Supplejack API

    1.3 6.3 Ruby
    Supplejack API Mountable Engine

  • Kimurai

    0.6 2.1 Ruby
    Kimurai is a modern web scraping framework written in Ruby which works out of box with Headless Chromium/Firefox, PhantomJS, or simple HTTP requests and allows to scrape and interact with Javascript rendered websites

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