medusa-crawler 1.0.0.pre.2

Medusa: a ruby crawler framework

Medusa is a framework for the ruby language to crawl and collect useful information about the pages it visits. It is versatile, allowing you to write your own specialized tasks quickly and easily.

Features

• Choose the links to follow on each page with focus_crawl

• Multi-threaded design for high performance

• Tracks 301 HTTP redirects

• Allows exclusion of URLs based on regular expressions

• HTTPS support

• Records response time for each page

• Obey robots.txt directives (optional, but recommended)

• In-memory or persistent storage of pages during crawl, provided by Moneta

• Inherits OpenURI behavior (redirects, automatic charset and encoding detection, proxy configuration options).

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