pismo vs FastImage

pismo

Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages (by peterc)

Web Crawling

Source Code

coder.io

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FastImage

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

Web Crawling

Source Code

github.com

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pismo		FastImage
	Project
-	Mentions	2
746	Stars	1,355
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.4
about 5 years ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	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.

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.

FastImage

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastImage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-26.

Implementing a Practical Server-Side Solution for Cumulative Layout Shift
2 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021

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.
Using FastImage to detect image dimensions in Ruby
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2021

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What are some alternatives?

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

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

Kimurai

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

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

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

google-search-results-ruby - Google Search Results via SERP API Ruby Gem

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework

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