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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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?

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

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/2006/01/31/iterators-
chapters-4-and-5

James Edward G. II

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Many thanks, I appreciate it very much.

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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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On 1/31/06, Kev [email protected] 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?

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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Gene T. 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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James B.

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