What is your recommendation of writing a web crawler in Ruby? Any lib better than mechanize?
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What is your recommendation of writing a web crawler in Ruby? Any lib better than mechanize?
If you want just to get pages’ content, the simpliest way is to use
open-urifunctions. They don’t require additional gems. You just have torequire 'open-uri'and… http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.2/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/OpenURI.htmlTo parse content you can use Nokogiri or other gems, which also can have, for example, useful XPATH-technology. You can find other parsing libraries just here on SO.