Ruby Libraries Used in Web Scraping

http-client

faraday
5,927 2.14.1 (2026-02-07 15:17:15 ago) Dec 19 2009
excon
1,172 1.4.2 (2026-03-20 19:18:25 ago) Oct 31 2009
httpclient
707 2.9.0 (2025-02-22 01:13:49 ago) Jul 25 2009
httparty
5,889 0.24.2 (2026-01-14 22:54:36 ago) Jul 25 2009
typhoeus
4,131 1.6.0 (2026-03-10 12:58:26 ago) Oct 06 2009
em-http-request
1,219 1.1.7 (2020-08-31 21:38:00 ago) Oct 25 2009
mechanize new
4,440 2.14.0 (2025-01-05 18:30:46 ago) Jul 25 2009
http-2
908 1.1.3 (2026-03-05 00:04:35 ago) Sep 25 2013
nestful
505 1.1.4 (2020-02-07 22:04:51 ago) Apr 20 2010
http.rb
3,104 0.17.0 (2026-03-25 01:20:02 ago) Mar 20 2015

html-parser

nokogiri
6,248 1.19.2 (2026-03-19 21:12:43 ago) Jul 25 2009

css-selectors

nokogiri
6,248 1.19.2 (2026-03-19 21:12:43 ago) Jul 25 2009

xpath

nokogiri
6,248 1.19.2 (2026-03-19 21:12:43 ago) Jul 25 2009

framework

mechanize new
4,440 2.14.0 (2025-01-05 18:30:46 ago) Jul 25 2009
spidr
835 0.7.2 (2025-02-03 07:58:27 ago) Jul 25 2009
kimurai new
1,098 2.2.0 (2026-01-27 17:36:19 ago) Aug 23 2018
wombat
1,360 3.3.0 (2026-04-07 16:31:34 ago) Dec 27 2011

xml-util

ox
911 2.14.23 (2025-05-28 01:01:53 ago) Jul 01 2011
roxml
225 4.2.0 (2021-09-09 05:37:36 ago) Aug 05 2009
happymapper
152 0.10.1 (2025-10-25 16:03:51 ago) Mar 19 2010

html-util

loofah
982 2.25.1 (2026-03-17 17:35:19 ago) Aug 18 2009
html-pipeline
2,346 3.2.4 (2026-01-06 03:55:22 ago) Nov 07 2012

data

kiba
1,773 4.0.0 (2021-03-24 12:37:03 ago) Apr 18 2015

ETL

kiba
1,773 4.0.0 (2021-03-24 12:37:03 ago) Apr 18 2015
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