Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in OpenURI

Downloading Images from URLs in Ruby

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: May 5, 2024

Learn how to download images from URLs using Ruby with OpenURI, Net::HTTP, HTTParty, Down, and Faraday.

Scraping Booking.com Property Listings in Ruby in 2023

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 15, 2023

Learn how to scrape property listings from Booking.com using Ruby, Nokogiri, and OpenURI libraries. Use proxies for scaling web scraping.

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