Web scraping with rails

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  • ferrum

    Headless Chrome Ruby API

  • I've used Ferrum for a couple small scripts in the past before.

  • usaf-aircraft

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • food-trucks

  • Nokogiri

    Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

  • If the page is rendered as html you can use Nokogiri. It has great support and is pretty easy to get started with too.

  • kimuraframework

    Kimurai is a modern web scraping framework written in Ruby which works out of box with Headless Chromium/Firefox, PhantomJS, or simple HTTP requests and allows to scrape and interact with JavaScript rendered websites

  • I've worked with https://github.com/vifreefly/kimuraframework in the past which was delightful.

  • football_api

    A Ruby interface to the https://www.api-football.com.

  • flatfish

  • Nokogiri let’s you use css selectors, so it’s good for scraping a known site. I made this about 10 years ago, but it might give you some ideas https://github.com/Loudon-Company/flatfish

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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