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Top 11 Ruby Scraper Projects
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I’ve always used huginn[0] for these types of tasks, though the learning curve/implementation is a bit cumbersome for more trivial tasks like the proposed scenario.
[0] https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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Wombat
Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.
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kimuraframework
Write web scrapers in Ruby using a clean, AI-assisted DSL. Kimurai uses AI to figure out where the data lives, then caches the selectors and scrapes with pure Ruby. Get the intelligence of an LLM without the per-request latency or token costs.
Project mention: Kimurai: AI-First Web Scraping Framework for Ruby | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-28 -
spidr
A versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use. (by postmodern)
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webinspector
Ruby gem to inspect completely a web page. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its meta, links, images more. (by davidesantangelo)
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html2rss-web
🕸 Turn almost any website into an RSS feed and serve it instantly. Automatic scraping. Start fast with Docker.
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html2rss
📰 Build RSS 2.0 feeds from websites (and JSON APIs) automatically or with a few CSS selectors.
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nhkore
🇯🇵📰🗻 NHK News Web (Easy) word frequency (core list) scraper for Japanese language learners.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Scraper projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huginn | 49,402 |
| 2 | Wombat | 1,362 |
| 3 | kimuraframework | 1,101 |
| 4 | spidr | 836 |
| 5 | webinspector | 307 |
| 6 | tanakai | 290 |
| 7 | html2rss-web | 176 |
| 8 | html2rss | 155 |
| 9 | nhkore | 15 |
| 10 | rails-urltohtml | 5 |
| 11 | chanCrawler | 4 |
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