Looking for web crawler written in Ruby

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Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

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Kev wrote:

Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin
  
If you are _really_ desperate, the first Ruby program I ever wrote was kind of a web crawler: http://students.seattleu.edu/collinsj/programs_netcrawler.html

But it's really terrible. It isn't hard to write your own, if you need to, using Net::HTTP (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html\) and URI (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/uri/rdoc/index.html\).

-Justin

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The code I translated from Higher-Order Perl at the tail end of the following blog article may be of use to you.

James Edward Gray II

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On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Kev wrote:

Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

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Kev wrote:

Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

http://www.jamesbritt.com/articles/RubyAndVbaForWebDictionarySearches.html
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/51/Ruby_Web_Spiders.pdf
http://www.acc.umu.se/~r2d2/programming/ruby/webfetcher/

http://snippets.textdrive.com/posts/show/74
(look at cached page)

http://rubyforge.org/projects/wee/
look at Mechanize

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Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

Some more offerings here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/146169?146040-146977

now you're practically crawling with spiders :slight_smile:

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On 1/31/06, Kev <tuweiwen@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
The best answer to most questions is "it depends".

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Many thanks, I appreciate it very much.

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Gene Tani wrote:

Kev wrote:

Hi, I am looking for web crawler(spider) written in Ruby. I googled but
couldn't find much information. Can anyone give me some links?

http://www.jamesbritt.com/articles/RubyAndVbaForWebDictionarySearches.html

There's not much spidering going on there, just some page scraping

http://rubyforge.org/projects/wee/
look at Mechanize

My Mechanize example may be helpful, though.

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