mechanize VS gun

Compare mechanize vs gun and see what are their differences.

mechanize

Build web scrapers and automate interaction with websites in Elixir with ease! (by gushonorato)
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mechanize gun
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30 884
- 0.6%
10.0 5.3
over 1 year ago about 1 month ago
Elixir Erlang
MIT License ISC License
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mechanize

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

gun

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  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mechanize and gun you can also consider the following projects:

river - An HTTP/2 client for Elixir (a work in progress!)

http_proxy - http proxy with Elixir. wait request with multi port and forward to each URIs

explode - An easy utility for responding with standard HTTP/JSON error payloads in Plug- and Phoenix-based applications

mint - Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 🌱

bolt - Simple and fast http proxy living in the Erlang VM

lhttpc - What used to be here -- this is a backwards-compat user and repo m(

finch - Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance

mnemonic_slugs - An Elixir library for generating memorable slugs.

HttpCanary - A powerful capture and injection tool for the Android platform

fuzzyurl - An Elixir library for non-strict parsing, manipulation, and wildcard matching of URLs.

Crawly - Crawly, a high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.