Messie is a simple web crawler that crawls one page at a time.
- follows HTTP redirects (max 5 levels deep)
- get all links a page contains to continue crawling recursively
- supports caching of pages
- decompression of gzip or deflate compressed is completely handled by messie
- return plain text from web pages
- crawl SSL encrypted pages
- set your own request headers via a fancy API
- directly access the page's content with Nokogiri
- records the response time of every crawled page
- contains a CLI tool that uses the complete API
page = Messie::Page.crawl "http://www.google.de" do
# these respond to method_missing, so any header key
# might be allowed here
accept_charset 'utf-8'
accept 'text/html'
end
page.response_code # => 200
page.response_time # => 0.83234
page.body # => "<html><title>foo</title>... <h1>Foobar</h1>"
page.text # => "Foobar ..."
page.title # => foo
page.links # => ['http://www.google.com', 'http://www.foobar.com']
page.nokogiri # => <Nokogiri::Document>
When it comes to caching pages, messie takes a lot of work from you. All you have to do is to persist
page.last_modified
and page.etag
and provide them on your next call to Messie::Page.crawl
.
page = Messie::Page.crawl "http://www.google.de" do
if_modified_since Time.now
if_none_match "1edec-3e3073913b101"
end
page.changed? # => false
page.cached? # => true, the resource is being cached by the server
page.etag # => "1edec-3e3073913b101"
page.last_modified # => #<Time>
- nokogiri
[sudo] gem install messie
Original author: Dominik Liebler [email protected]
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Dominik Liebler
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