vessel
google-search-results-ruby
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603 | 48 | |
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5.6 | 5.1 | |
4 months ago | 4 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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vessel
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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.
google-search-results-ruby
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Any examples of good gem wrappers around external APIs?
We made this: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby
What are some alternatives?
Kimurai
Wombat - Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.
Mechanize - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
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
Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine
Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)
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
LinkThumbnailer - Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.