vessel
Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework (by rubycdp)
Wombat
Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages. (by felipecsl)
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vessel | Wombat | |
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2 | 1 | |
602 | 1,303 | |
0.7% | - | |
5.6 | 2.2 | |
4 months ago | 3 months 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.
Wombat
Posts with mentions or reviews of Wombat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vessel and Wombat you can also consider the following projects:
Kimurai
Mechanize - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages
anemone - Anemone web-spider framework
MetaInspector - Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images...
Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)
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
Screencap - A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.