vessel VS pismo

Compare vessel vs pismo and see what are their differences.

vessel

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

pismo

Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages (by peterc)
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vessel pismo
2 0
602 748
1.5% -
5.6 0.0
3 months ago almost 5 years ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

pismo

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vessel and pismo 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.

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...

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

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.)