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A simple ruby gem to recursively traverse all URLs on a Root URL. It returns all the URLs it encountered
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 Releases
Current version
0.1.0
Total releases
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First release
2016-06-16
Latest release
2016-06-16
 Development
Primary Language
Ruby
Licenses
MIT
Average date of last 50 commits
2016-06-15
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 Dependencies

Development

uri
>= 0
 Project Readme

ruby-web-crawler

A simple Web Crawler to recursively follow links and get all the child Links. It also supports URL forwarding caused by redirection.

###Installation

gem install ruby-web-crawler

###Using the Gem

crawler = RubyWebCrawler.new 'http://example.com'
urls = crawler.start_crawl    # Returns an Array of all URLs

###Configuration

Change number of URLs the crawler will traverse before it stops

crawler = RubyWebCrawler.new 'http://example.com', 100

OR

crawler.url_limit = 100  # Default 50 (Applicable before calling `start_crawl`)


Change the execution time limit of the Crawl (In Seconds) 
crawler = RubyWebCrawler.new 'http://example.com', 100, 120

OR

crawler.time_limit = 120  # Default 60 (Applicable before calling `start_crawl`)