Spidr is a versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.
- Follows:
atags.iframetags.frametags.- Cookie protected links.
- HTTP 300, 301, 302, 303 and 307 Redirects.
- Meta-Refresh Redirects.
- HTTP Basic Auth protected links.
- Black-list or white-list URLs based upon:
- URL scheme.
- Host name
- Port number
- Full link
- URL extension
- Optional
/robots.txtsupport.
- Provides callbacks for:
- Every visited Page.
- Every visited URL.
- Every visited URL that matches a specified pattern.
- Every origin and destination URI of a link.
- Every URL that failed to be visited.
- Provides action methods to:
- Pause spidering.
- Skip processing of pages.
- Skip processing of links.
- Restore the spidering queue and history from a previous session.
- Custom User-Agent strings.
- Custom proxy settings.
- HTTPS support.
Start spidering from a URL:
Spidr.start_at('http://tenderlovemaking.com/') do |agent|
# ...
endSpider a host:
Spidr.host('solnic.eu') do |agent|
# ...
endSpider a domain (and any sub-domains):
Spidr.domain('ruby-lang.org') do |agent|
# ...
endSpider a site:
Spidr.site('http://www.rubyflow.com/') do |agent|
# ...
endSpider multiple hosts:
Spidr.start_at('http://company.com/', hosts: ['company.com', /host[\d]+\.company\.com/]) do |agent|
# ...
endDo not spider certain links:
Spidr.site('http://company.com/', ignore_links: [%{^/blog/}]) do |agent|
# ...
endDo not spider links on certain ports:
Spidr.site('http://company.com/', ignore_ports: [8000, 8010, 8080]) do |agent|
# ...
endDo not spider links blacklisted in robots.txt:
Spidr.site('http://company.com/', robots: true) do |agent|
# ...
endPrint out visited URLs:
Spidr.site('http://www.rubyinside.com/') do |spider|
spider.every_url { |url| puts url }
endBuild a URL map of a site:
url_map = Hash.new { |hash,key| hash[key] = [] }
Spidr.site('http://intranet.com/') do |spider|
spider.every_link do |origin,dest|
url_map[dest] << origin
end
endPrint out the URLs that could not be requested:
Spidr.site('http://company.com/') do |spider|
spider.every_failed_url { |url| puts url }
endFinds all pages which have broken links:
url_map = Hash.new { |hash,key| hash[key] = [] }
spider = Spidr.site('http://intranet.com/') do |spider|
spider.every_link do |origin,dest|
url_map[dest] << origin
end
end
spider.failures.each do |url|
puts "Broken link #{url} found in:"
url_map[url].each { |page| puts " #{page}" }
endSearch HTML and XML pages:
Spidr.site('http://company.com/') do |spider|
spider.every_page do |page|
puts ">>> #{page.url}"
page.search('//meta').each do |meta|
name = (meta.attributes['name'] || meta.attributes['http-equiv'])
value = meta.attributes['content']
puts " #{name} = #{value}"
end
end
endPrint out the titles from every page:
Spidr.site('https://www.ruby-lang.org/') do |spider|
spider.every_html_page do |page|
puts page.title
end
endPrint out every HTTP redirect:
Spidr.host('company.com') do |spider|
spider.every_redirect_page do |page|
puts "#{page.url} -> #{page.headers['Location']}"
end
endFind what kinds of web servers a host is using, by accessing the headers:
servers = Set[]
Spidr.host('company.com') do |spider|
spider.all_headers do |headers|
servers << headers['server']
end
endPause the spider on a forbidden page:
Spidr.host('company.com') do |spider|
spider.every_forbidden_page do |page|
spider.pause!
end
endSkip the processing of a page:
Spidr.host('company.com') do |spider|
spider.every_missing_page do |page|
spider.skip_page!
end
endSkip the processing of links:
Spidr.host('company.com') do |spider|
spider.every_url do |url|
if url.path.split('/').find { |dir| dir.to_i > 1000 }
spider.skip_link!
end
end
end$ gem install spidrSee {file:LICENSE.txt} for license information.