Image crawler in Ruby
This respository was created as a guide to more complex projects and is intended to be expanded in the future. This is a basic implementation of an image crawler developed in Ruby with the following dependencies:
- Nokogiri
- HTTParty
- Launchy
If you don't have ruby installed in your environment, this link might help. You might also want to install bundler.
After installing ruby and bundler you can simply type the following in order to install the dependencies:
bundle install
In order to scrape a website you can simply type the following in a terminal, passing the url of whichever website you want:
ruby img_crawler.rb '[website_url]'
Ps.: It's valid noticing that the script used is based on img tags, thus if any of the images in a website is not included within that tag, it won't show up.