RW Spider

RW Spider is an multithreading spider client written in Ruby. The library was designed to make easy the development of programs that spider the web.

RW Spider design comes from the direct experiences of the development of another PHP library that is currently used as the engine for an freeware SEO tool.

Features

Multithreading spider
Customizable options for the spider job
Robots.txt support
Indexing of web pages and others files (images, CSS, JavaScript, PDF and more)
Following redirects

Requirements

Ruby >= 1.8.7
Hpricot >= 0.8.2
Robotstxt >= 0.5.2

Installation

This library is intended to be installed via the Gemcutter system.

$ gem install rwspider

You might need administrator privileges on your system to install it.

Author

Author: Simone Rinzivillo <[email protected]>

Resources

Homepage
Author
GitHub

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG.rdoc file for details.