anemone vs Mechanize

anemone

Anemone web-spider framework (by chriskite)

Web Crawling

Source Code

anemone.rubyforge.org

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Mechanize

Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. (by sparklemotion)

Web Crawling Scraping Web Ruby

Source Code

rubydoc.info

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anemone		Mechanize
	Project
-	Mentions	1
1,613	Stars	4,354
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	7.2
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

anemone

Posts with mentions or reviews of anemone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning anemone yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Mechanize

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mechanize. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Ruby Web Scraping
1 project | /r/ruby | 13 May 2022

mechanize does all this without having to write so much yourself

What are some alternatives?

When comparing anemone and Mechanize you can also consider the following projects:

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

Kimurai

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

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

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

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

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

google-search-results-ruby - Google Search Results via SERP API Ruby Gem