== Medusa: a ruby crawler framework {rdoc-image:https://badge.fury.io/rb/medusa-crawler.svg}[https://rubygems.org/gems/medusa-crawler] rdoc-image:https://github.com/brutuscat/medusa-crawler/workflows/Ruby/badge.svg?event=push Medusa is a framework for the ruby language to crawl and collect useful information about the pages it visits. It is versatile, allowing you to write your own specialized tasks quickly and easily. === Features * Choose the links to follow on each page with +focus_crawl+ * Multi-threaded design for high performance * Tracks +301+ HTTP redirects * Allows exclusion of URLs based on regular expressions * Records response time for each page * Obey _robots.txt_ directives (optional, but recommended) * In-memory or persistent storage of pages during crawl, provided by Moneta[https://github.com/moneta-rb/moneta] * Inherits OpenURI behavior (redirects, automatic charset and encoding detection, proxy configuration options). <b>Do you have an idea or a suggestion? {Open an issue and talk about it}[https://github.com/brutuscat/medusa-crawler/issues/new]</b> === Examples Medusa is versatile and to be used programatically, you can start with one or multiple URIs: require 'medusa' Medusa.crawl('https://www.example.com', depth_limit: 2) Or you can pass a block and it will yield the crawler back, to manage configuration or drive its crawling focus: require 'medusa' Medusa.crawl('https://www.example.com', depth_limit: 2) do |crawler| crawler.discard_page_bodies = some_flag # Persist all the pages state across crawl-runs. crawler.clear_on_startup = false crawler.storage = Medusa::Storage.Moneta(:Redis, 'redis://redis.host.name:6379/0') crawler.skip_links_like(/private/) crawler.on_pages_like(/public/) do |page| logger.debug "[public page] #{page.url} took #{page.response_time} found #{page.links.count}" end # Use an arbitrary logic, page by page, to continue customize the crawling. crawler.focus_crawl(/public/) do |page| page.links.first end end

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CrawlerDetect is a library to detect bots/crawlers via the user agent

Crawler Engine provides function of crawl all news from the customized website

Generic Web crawler with a DSL that parses structured data from web pages

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Simple Gem Using Watir For Phantom Crawler

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MurmuringSpider is a concise Twitter crawler. When we write a data-mining / text-mining application based on twitter timeline, we have to collect and store tweets first. I am irritated with writing such crawler repeatedly, so I wrote this. What you have to do is only to add query and to run them periodically. Thanks to consistent Twitter API and twitter gem (http://twitter.rubyforge.org/), it is quite easy to track various types of timelines (such as user_timeline, home_timeline, search...)

Retrieves a list of URLs to seed the crawler by publishing them to a RabbitMQ exchange.

Web page crawler.

This gem is a web crawler sample code.So I don't reccmmend that you use.

Simple ruby web crawler

a simple web crawler using DSL of capybara

web crawler that generates a sitemap to a neo4j database. It will also store broken_links and total number of pages on site

Easy way to enable AdSense crawler to login and see private or custom pages in your rails application. Basically one custom login filter. Gem enables you to easily slightly increase revenues from Google AdSense/AdWords. It makes it easy to enable crawling on private pages and so get better targeted ads even in pages behind login screen.