Wombat

Web scraper with an elegant DSL that parses structured data from web pages.

Usage:

gem install wombat

Obs: Requires ruby 1.9.3 (activesupport requires Ruby version >= 1.9.3)

Scraping a page:

The simplest way to use Wombat is by calling Wombat.crawl and passing it a block:

require 'wombat'

Wombat.crawl do
  base_url "http://www.github.com"
  path "/"

  headline xpath: "//h1"
  subheading css: "p.subheading"

  what_is({ css: ".teaser h3" }, :list)

  links do
    explore xpath: '//*[@id="wrapper"]/div[1]/div/ul/li[1]/a' do |e|
      e.gsub(/Explore/, "Love")
    end

    search css: '.search'
    features css: '.features'
    blog css: '.blog'
  end
end

The code above is gonna return the following hash:

{
  "headline"=>"Build software better, together.",
  "subheading"=> "Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects.",
  "what_is"=> [
    "Great collaboration starts with communication.",
    "Manage and contribute from all your devices.",
    "The world’s largest open source community."
  ],
  "links"=> {
    "explore"=>"Love GitHub",
    "search"=>"Search",
    "features"=>"Features",
    "blog"=>"Blog"
  }
}

This is just a sneak peek of what Wombat can do. For the complete documentation, please check the links below:

Wiki

API Documentation

Changelog

Contributing to Wombat

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Contributors

Felipe Lima (@felipecsl)
List of all contributors