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= 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, MongoDB, or Redis
== Examples
See the scripts under the <tt>lib/anemone/cli</tt> directory for examples of several useful Anemone tasks.
== Requirements
* nokogiri
* robots
== Development
To test and develop this gem, additional requirements are:
* rspec
* fakeweb
* tokyocabinet
* mongo
* redis
You will need to have {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.