Mechanize vs google-search-results-ruby

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Mechanize		google-search-results-ruby
	Project
1	Mentions	1
4,354	Stars	48
0.3%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	5.1
11 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

Mechanize

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mechanize. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Ruby Web Scraping
1 project | /r/ruby | 13 May 2022

mechanize does all this without having to write so much yourself

google-search-results-ruby

Posts with mentions or reviews of google-search-results-ruby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-20.

Any examples of good gem wrappers around external APIs?
8 projects | /r/ruby | 20 Apr 2021

We made this: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mechanize and google-search-results-ruby you can also consider the following projects:

Kimurai

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

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

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

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.)

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