MetaInspector VS anemone

Compare MetaInspector vs anemone and see what are their differences.

MetaInspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images... (by jaimeiniesta)
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MetaInspector anemone
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1,021 1,613
0.1% -
6.4 0.0
about 2 months ago about 4 years ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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MetaInspector

Posts with mentions or reviews of MetaInspector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Show HN: A rich daily digest feed for Hacker News
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022
    I made a feed that contains rich information from every article (title, description, image), and also from the Hacker News discussion.

    The feed is very convenient for reviewing Hacker News content weekly and picking what to read out of the myriad of articles.

    The backend is Ruby on AWS Lambda, with the brilliant [metainspector gem](https://github.com/metainspector/metainspector) to extract rich content.

anemone

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MetaInspector and anemone you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

Kimurai

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

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

Screencap - A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.

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