LinkThumbnailer vs Mechanize

LinkThumbnailer

Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview. (by gottfrois)

Web Crawling

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Mechanize

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

Web Crawling Scraping Web Ruby

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LinkThumbnailer		Mechanize
	Project
1	Mentions	1
510	Stars	4,353
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	7.2
8 months ago	Latest Commit	25 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

LinkThumbnailer

Posts with mentions or reviews of LinkThumbnailer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

Linkit, a beginner link aggregator
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2023

Linkit is a beginner project created using Rails 7, with extensive use of the Turbo technology, as well as the Devise gem for authentication. It also utilizes the handy Link Thumbnailer and Acts as Votable gems for generating thumbnails for link posts, and allowing votes on posts and comments, respectively. On the front end, Bootstrap is used to help make everything uniform, with some tweaking done with Sass. The logo and buttons (one being made with the help of a CC0 image), as well as the default avatar and thumbnails were all made by me, using GIMP!

Mechanize

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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 LinkThumbnailer and Mechanize you can also consider the following projects:

instabot.rb - An instagram bot works without instagram api, only needs your username and password. written in ruby

Kimurai

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

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

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

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