vessel
Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework (by rubycdp)
FastImage
FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed (by sdsykes)
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| vessel | FastImage | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 602 | 1,353 | |
| 0.7% | - | |
| 5.6 | 6.4 | |
| 4 months ago | 13 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
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Learning Ruby Basics
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).
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Ruby web scraping gem that can handle JS?
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.
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.
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Implementing a Practical Server-Side Solution for Cumulative Layout Shift
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.
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Using FastImage to detect image dimensions in Ruby
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing vessel and FastImage 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.
Screencap - A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.
pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
Mechanize - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
The Hawker Ruby gem - The Hawker gem is a web scraper which allows you to pull the basic information for given social media profile URL
anemone - Anemone web-spider framework
Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine