webinspector
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ruby gem for web scraping
SHOW HN2015
27points
8comments
#988of 2,565 in 2015
Top 39%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
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1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Design: 1 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful alternative to Mechanize, good use of Faraday
From 1 comment
Always nice to have alternative. Mechanize is certainly the big player in this space, but I like the use of faraday here. Thanks for sharing.
purephase on HN
Objections
No way to query the page beyond the fixed accessors
From 1 comment
I was surprised there's no way to query the page beyond the small list of element accessors you provide (body, url, scheme, host, port, title, description, links, images, meta).…
mapgrep on HN
Unclear which underlying HTTP library is used
From 1 comment
What does this use underneath? I wouldn't use it unless I know whether it uses libcurl or something else.
AznHisoka on HN
Requests
Provide an escape hatch to underlying Nokogiri data or selectors
From 1 comment
I was surprised there's no way to query the page beyond the small list of element accessors you provide (body, url, scheme, host, port, title, description, links, images, meta).…
mapgrep on HN
Questions
Does it use libcurl or another HTTP library underneath
From 1 comment
What does this use underneath? I wouldn't use it unless I know whether it uses libcurl or something else.
AznHisoka on HN
Alternatives named
Mechanize
From 1 comment
Good work, but you might not have heard about Mechanize: https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize
nathan_f77 on HN
link_preview
From 1 comment
Similar gem that scrapes OGP and oEmbed tags as well as HTML tags. Also configured using Faraday and allows for serialization/deserialization of underlying data:…
mjands on HN