FastImage vs Wombat

FastImage

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

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Wombat

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

Web Crawling Ruby Scraper Crawler DSL

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felipecsl.github.io

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FastImage		Wombat
	Project
2	Mentions	1
1,356	Stars	1,303
-	Growth	-
6.7	Activity	2.2
26 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

FastImage

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastImage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-26.

Implementing a Practical Server-Side Solution for Cumulative Layout Shift
2 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021

Forem uses FastImage to quickly and minimally inspect images for their height and width attributes as well as whether they are animated gifs. This is used to help with issues pertaining to prefers-reduced-motion in our efforts to provide the most accessible experience.
Using FastImage to detect image dimensions in Ruby
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2021

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Wombat

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

Suggest me a web automation tool
1 project | /r/Automate | 14 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FastImage and Wombat you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

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

Kimurai

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework

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

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