Ruby is a powerful, interpreted programming language that is known for its simplicity and productivity. It has a rich ecosystem of libraries and frameworks aimed at web development, making it a popular choice for web scraping as well.
While Ruby is not as widely used for web scraping as Python, it still has several libraries that make web scraping quite accessible. To add, Ruby's ruby on rails framework makes it easy to create real time distributed web scraping applications.
Web Scraping With Ruby
Introduction to web scraping with Ruby. How to handle http connections, parse html files for data, best practices, tips and an example project.
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