postmodern/spidr

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.

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Spidr is a versatile Ruby library that helps developers navigate and extract information from websites programmatically. You provide it with a starting URL or domain, and it systematically follows links to gather details like page content, links, and HTTP headers. This is ideal for developers building tools for web scraping, site mapping, or content indexing.

836 stars.

Use this if you are a Ruby developer needing to automate the crawling of websites to collect data or analyze site structure.

Not ideal if you need a no-code solution or are not comfortable writing Ruby code to interact with web data.

web-scraping site-mapping content-indexing web-crawling data-extraction
No Package No Dependents
Maintenance 6 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 20 / 25

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836

Forks

108

Language

Ruby

License

MIT

Category

scraper

Last pushed

Jan 12, 2026

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