Spidr¶ ↑

• spidr.rubyforge.org

• github.com/postmodern/spidr

• github.com/postmodern/spidr/issues

• groups.google.com/group/spidr

• irc.freenode.net #spidr

DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

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.

FEATURES:¶ ↑

• Follows:

  • a tags.

  • iframe tags.

  • frame tags.

  • Cookie protected links.

  • HTTP 300, 301, 302, 303 and 307 Redirects.

  • HTTP Basic Auth protected links.

• Black-list or white-list URLs based upon:

  • URL scheme.

  • Host name

  • Port number

  • Full link

  • URL extension

• Provides call-backs for:

  • Every visited Page.

  • Every visited URL.

  • Every visited URL that matches a specified pattern.

  • 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.

EXAMPLES:¶ ↑

• Start spidering from a URL:

  Spidr.start_at('http://tenderlovemaking.com/')
  

• Spider a host:

  Spidr.host('coderrr.wordpress.com')
  

• Spider a site:

  Spidr.site('http://rubyflow.com/')
  

• Spider multiple hosts:

  Spidr.start_at(
    'http://company.com/',
    :hosts => [
      'company.com',
      /host\d\.company\.com/
    ]
  )
  

• Do not spider certain links:

  Spidr.site('http://matasano.com/', :ignore_links => [/log/])
  

• Do not spider links on certain ports:

  Spidr.site(
    'http://sketchy.content.com/',
    :ignore_ports => [8000, 8010, 8080]
  )
  

• Print out visited URLs:

  Spidr.site('http://rubyinside.org/') do |spider|
    spider.every_url { |url| puts url }
  end
  

• Print out the URLs that could not be requested:

  Spidr.site('http://sketchy.content.com/') do |spider|
    spider.every_failed_url { |url| puts url }
  end
  

• Search HTML and XML pages:

  Spidr.site('http://company.withablog.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
end

• Print out the titles from every page:

  Spidr.site('http://www.rubypulse.com/') do |spider|
    spider.every_html_page do |page|
      puts page.title
    end
  end
  

• Find what kinds of web servers a host is using, by accessing the headers:

  servers = Set[]
  
  Spidr.host('generic.company.com') do |spider|
    spider.all_headers do |headers|
      servers << headers['server']
    end
  end
  

• Pause the spider on a forbidden page:

  spider = Spidr.host('overnight.startup.com') do |spider|
    spider.every_forbidden_page do |page|
      spider.pause!
    end
  end
  

• Skip the processing of a page:

  Spidr.host('sketchy.content.com') do |spider|
    spider.every_missing_page do |page|
      spider.skip_page!
    end
  end
  

• Skip the processing of links:

  Spidr.host('sketchy.content.com') do |spider|
    spider.every_url do |url|
      if url.path.split('/').find { |dir| dir.to_i > 1000 }
        spider.skip_link!
      end
    end
  end
  

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

• nokogiri >= 1.2.0

INSTALL:¶ ↑

$ sudo gem install spidr

LICENSE:¶ ↑

The MIT License

Copyright © 2008-2010 Hal Brodigan

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.