FastImage Alternatives - Ruby Web Crawling

Popularity

6.1

Stable

Activity

3.4

Declining

Stars 1,134

Watchers 25

Forks 102

Last Commit 9 months ago

Description

Your app needs to find the size or type of an image. This could be for adding width and height attributes to an image tag, for adjusting layouts or overlays to fit an image or any other of dozens of reasons.

But the image is not locally stored – it’s on another asset server, or in the cloud – at Amazon S3 for example.

You don’t want to download the entire image to your app server – it could be many tens of kilobytes, or even megabytes just to get this information. For most common image types (GIF, PNG, BMP etc.), the size of the image is simply stored at the start of the file. For JPEG files it’s a little bit more complex, but even so you do not need to fetch much of the image to find the size.

FastImage does this minimal fetch for image types GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, ICO, CUR, PSD, SVG and WEBP. And it doesn’t rely on installing external libraries such as RMagick (which relies on ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick) or ImageScience (which relies on FreeImage).

You only need supply the uri, and FastImage will do the rest.

Code Quality Rank: L5

Monthly Downloads: 1,080,276

Programming language: Ruby

License: MIT License

Tags: Web Crawling Image Discovery Image Manipulation

FastImage alternatives and similar gems

Based on the "Web Crawling" category

Mechanize

8.9 2.0 L4 FastImage VS Mechanize

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

7.5 0.0 L5 FastImage VS anemone

Ruby library and CLI for crawling websites.
Upton

7.1 2.2 L5 FastImage VS Upton

A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping.
Wombat

6.3 5.0 L5 FastImage VS Wombat

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

5.8 3.1 L5 FastImage VS MetaInspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes.
pismo

5.3 0.0 L5 FastImage VS pismo

Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
LinkThumbnailer

4.5 5.0 L5 FastImage VS LinkThumbnailer

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 FastImage VS Screencap

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

2.3 0.0 FastImage VS instabot.rb

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

1.4 0.0 FastImage VS The Hawker Ruby gem

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

0.9 8.2 FastImage VS Supplejack API

Supplejack API Mountable Engine
Kimurai

0.6 2.1 FastImage VS Kimurai

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

* Code Quality Rankings and insights are calculated and provided by Lumnify.
They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest. Visit our partner's website for more details.

Do you think we are missing an alternative of FastImage or a related project?

Add another 'Web Crawling' Gem