vessel VS anemone

Compare vessel vs anemone and see what are their differences.

vessel

Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework (by rubycdp)

anemone

Anemone web-spider framework (by chriskite)
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vessel anemone
2 0
602 1,617
1.5% -
5.6 0.0
3 months ago about 4 years ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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vessel

Posts with mentions or reviews of vessel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Learning Ruby Basics
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 13 Sep 2022
    What are you using for automation? There's a relatively new gem that I heard good things of, vessel: https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel . It uses ferrum under the hood, a set of Ruby bindings to Chrome/Chromium (https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum).
  • Ruby web scraping gem that can handle JS?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 13 Jul 2022
    I've used https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum as driver for automated testing with capybara for which it works great. It recommends https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel as higher level abstraction for web scraping.

anemone

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Kimurai

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.

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

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

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

Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine

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