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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 to understand a page's aliases
* 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

== Examples
See the scripts under the <tt>lib/anemone/cli</tt> directory for examples of several useful Anemone tasks.

== Requirements
* nokogiri

== Optional
* fizx-robots (required if obey_robots_txt is set to true)

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
anemone-0.2.2	README.rdoc
anemone-0.2.1	README.rdoc