Screencap VS vessel

Compare Screencap vs vessel and see what are their differences.

Screencap

A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood. (by maxwell)

vessel

Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework (by rubycdp)
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Screencap vessel
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178 603
- 0.2%
0.0 5.6
almost 5 years ago 4 months ago
JavaScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Screencap

Posts with mentions or reviews of Screencap. 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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Kimurai

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

Wombat - Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

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

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