= Anemone
Anemone is a web spider framework that can spider a domain and collect useful
information about the pages it visits. It is versatile, allowing you to
write your own specialized spider tasks quickly and easily.
See http://anemone.rubyforge.org for more information.
== Features
- Multi-threaded design for high performance
- Tracks 301 HTTP redirects
- Built-in BFS algorithm for determining page depth
- Allows exclusion of URLs based on regular expressions
- Choose the links to follow on each page with focus_crawl()
- HTTPS support
- Records response time for each page
- CLI program can list all pages in a domain, calculate page depths, and more
- Obey robots.txt
- In-memory or persistent storage of pages during crawl, using TokyoCabinet, SQLite3, MongoDB, or Redis
== Examples
See the scripts under the lib/anemone/cli directory for examples of several useful Anemone tasks.
== Requirements
- nokogiri
- robots
== Development
To test and develop this gem, additional requirements are:
- rspec
- fakeweb
- tokyocabinet
- kyotocabinet-ruby
- mongo
- redis
- sqlite3
You will need to have KyotoCabinet, {Tokyo Cabinet}[http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/], {MongoDB}[http://www.mongodb.org/], and {Redis}[http://code.google.com/p/redis/] installed on your system and running.