browze

Browze

A scraping-oriented browser-like wrapper around HTTParty for your cli tools.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'browze'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install browze

Usage Examples

# Instantiate the browser
browser = Browze.start

# By default the browser is instantiated with a desktop user agent. if you want
# to use a mobile user agent instead, start it with :mobile.
mobile_browser = Browze.start(:mobile)

# A random user agent is set automatically
# e.g.: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36"
browser.user_agent

# Set any custom headers
browser.headers = { foo: 'bar' }

# Perform a GET request
response = browser.get('https://www.google.com/')

# Return the parsed response body as a Nokogiri::HTML::Document
response.parsed

# Perform a POST request
browser.post(
  'https://www.example.com/url.php',
  param1: 'example',
  param2: 'example'
)

# Download a file and show a progress bar
browser.download('https://www.example.com/robots.txt')

# Show the current IP and geolocation
browser.ip       # => 75.152.126.127
browser.location # => Grande Prairie, Canada

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rspec to run the specs or bundle exec guard --clear to keep them running during the development.

You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.