Mechanize
FastImage
Mechanize | FastImage | |
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1 | 2 | |
4,355 | 1,356 | |
0.1% | - | |
7.1 | 6.7 | |
18 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Mechanize
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Ruby Web Scraping
mechanize does all this without having to write so much yourself
FastImage
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Implementing a Practical Server-Side Solution for Cumulative Layout Shift
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.
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Using FastImage to detect image dimensions in Ruby
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What are some alternatives?
Kimurai
LinkThumbnailer - Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.
Wombat - Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.
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...
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