Ruby Web Crawling

13 Web Crawling gems and projects

• Upton

  7.1 2.2 L5 Ruby

  A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping.

• Mechanize

  7.1 2.1 L4 Ruby

  Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.

• anemone

  6.3 0.0 L5 Ruby

  Ruby library and CLI for crawling websites.

• Wombat

  6.3 5.0 L5 Ruby

  Web scraper with an elegant DSL that parses structured data from web pages.

• FastImage

  6.1 3.4 L5 Ruby

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

• MetaInspector

  5.8 3.1 L5 Ruby

  Ruby gem for web scraping purposes.

• pismo

  5.3 0.0 L5 Ruby

  Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

• LinkThumbnailer

  4.5 5.0 L5 Ruby

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

• Screencap

  3.1 0.0 JavaScript

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

• instabot.rb

  2.3 0.1 Ruby

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

• The Hawker Ruby gem

  1.4 0.0 Ruby

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

• Supplejack API

  0.9 8.2 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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