pismo vs Mechanize

pismo

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

Web Crawling

Source Code

coder.io

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Mechanize

Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. (by sparklemotion)

Web Crawling Scraping Web Ruby

Source Code

rubydoc.info

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pismo		Mechanize
	Project
-	Mentions	1
746	Stars	4,354
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	7.2
about 5 years ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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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.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pismo and Mechanize 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

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

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

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

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

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

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework