Wombat VS MetaInspector

Compare Wombat vs MetaInspector and see what are their differences.

Wombat

Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages. (by felipecsl)

MetaInspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images... (by jaimeiniesta)
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Wombat MetaInspector
1 1
1,303 1,021
- -0.4%
2.2 6.4
3 months ago about 2 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Wombat

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MetaInspector

Posts with mentions or reviews of MetaInspector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Show HN: A rich daily digest feed for Hacker News
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2022
    I made a feed that contains rich information from every article (title, description, image), and also from the Hacker News discussion.

    The feed is very convenient for reviewing Hacker News content weekly and picking what to read out of the myriad of articles.

    The backend is Ruby on AWS Lambda, with the brilliant [metainspector gem](https://github.com/metainspector/metainspector) to extract rich content.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wombat and MetaInspector you can also consider the following projects:

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

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

LinkThumbnailer - Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview.

Kimurai

Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)

vessel - Fast high-level web crawling Ruby framework

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

Screencap - A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.