Ruby Web Crawling

15 Web Crawling gems and projects

• Mechanize

  8.9 4.2 L4 Ruby

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

• anemone

  7.6 0.0 L5 Ruby

  Anemone web-spider framework

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• Upton

  7.1 0.0 L5 HTML

  A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)
  

• Wombat

  6.5 3.5 L5 Ruby

  Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.

• FastImage

  6.4 2.0 L5 Ruby

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

• MetaInspector

  6.2 6.3 L5 Ruby

  Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images...
  

• pismo

  5.6 0.0 L5 Ruby

  Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

• LinkThumbnailer

  4.9 0.4 L5 Ruby

  Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.

• Vessel

  3.7 5.3 Ruby

  Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework
  

• Screencap

  3.3 0.0 JavaScript

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

• instabot.rb

  2.7 0.0 Ruby

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

• The Hawker Ruby gem

  1.8 0.0 Ruby

  The Hawker gem is a web scraper which allows you to pull the basic information for given social media profile URL

• Supplejack API

  1.3 8.8 Ruby

  Supplejack API Mountable Engine
  

• Google Search Results in Ruby

  1.2 2.8 Ruby

  Google Search Results via SERP API Ruby Gem
  

• 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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