Mechanize vs pismo

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Mechanize		pismo
	Project
1	Mentions	-
4,354	Stars	746
0.3%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	0.0
11 days ago	Latest Commit	about 5 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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

pismo

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning pismo yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mechanize and pismo you can also consider the following projects:

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.

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

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

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

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

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework