The Hawker Ruby gem VS vessel

Compare The Hawker Ruby gem vs vessel 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)

vessel

Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework (by rubycdp)
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The Hawker Ruby gem vessel
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70 603
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0.0 5.6
about 6 years ago 4 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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The Hawker Ruby gem

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

vessel

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  • Learning Ruby Basics
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 13 Sep 2022
    What are you using for automation? There's a relatively new gem that I heard good things of, vessel: https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel . It uses ferrum under the hood, a set of Ruby bindings to Chrome/Chromium (https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum).
  • Ruby web scraping gem that can handle JS?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 13 Jul 2022
    I've used https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum as driver for automated testing with capybara for which it works great. It recommends https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel as higher level abstraction for web scraping.

What are some alternatives?

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

Kimurai

Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine

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

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

pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web 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.)

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