The Hawker Ruby gem VS MetaInspector

Compare The Hawker Ruby gem vs MetaInspector and see what are their differences.

The Hawker Ruby gem

The Hawker gem is a web scraper which allows you to pull the basic information for given social media profile URL (by pdabrowski6)

MetaInspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images... (by jaimeiniesta)
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The Hawker Ruby gem MetaInspector
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0.0 6.4
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Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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The Hawker Ruby gem

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

MetaInspector

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  • Show HN: A rich daily digest feed for Hacker News
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022
    I made a feed that contains rich information from every article (title, description, image), and also from the Hacker News discussion.

    The feed is very convenient for reviewing Hacker News content weekly and picking what to read out of the myriad of articles.

    The backend is Ruby on AWS Lambda, with the brilliant [metainspector gem](https://github.com/metainspector/metainspector) to extract rich content.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing The Hawker Ruby gem and MetaInspector you can also consider the following projects:

Kimurai

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

Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine

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

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

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

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