0.7.2 / 2025-02-02¶ ↑

• Added the base64 gem as a dependency to satisfy Bundler.

0.7.1 / 2024-01-25¶ ↑

• Switched to using require_relative to improve load-times.

• Added # frozen_string_literal: true to all files.

• Use keyword arguments for {Spidr.domain}.

• Rescue URI::Error instead of Exception when calling URI::HTTP#merge in {Spidr::Page#to_absolute}.

0.7.0 / 2022-12-31¶ ↑

• Added {Spidr.domain} and {Spidr::Agent.domain}.

• Added {Spidr::Page#gif?}.

• Added {Spidr::Page#jpeg?}.

• Added {Spidr::Page#icon?} and {Spidr::Page#ico?}.

• Added {Spidr::Page#png?}.

• {Spidr.proxy=} and {Spidr::Agent#proxy=} can now accept a String or a URI::HTTP object.

0.6.1 / 2019-10-24¶ ↑

• Check for the opaque component of URIs before attempting to set the path component (@kyaroch). This fixes URI::InvalidURIError: path conflicts with opaque exceptions.

• Fix @robots instance variable warning (@spk).

0.6.0 / 2016-08-04¶ ↑

• Added {Spidr::Proxy}.

• Added more options to {Spidr::Agent#initialize}:

• :default_headers: specifies the default headers to set in all requests (@maccman).

• :limit: specify the maximum number of links to visit.

• :open_timeout, :read_timeout, :ssl_timeout, :continue_timeout, and :keep_alive_timeout: sets Net::HTTP timeouts.

• Allow {Spidr::Settings::Proxy#proxy= Spidr.proxy=} to accept nil.

• Use Net::HTTPResponse#get_fields in {Spidr::Page} to correctly return multiple values for repeated headers.

• Fixed a bug in {Spidr::Page#method_missing} where method names were not being correctly converted to header names.

• Fixed a bug in {Spidr::Page#cookie_params} where Set-Cookie flags were not being filtered out.

• Rewrote the specs to use webmock and increased spec coverage.

0.5.0 / 2016-01-03¶ ↑

• Added support for respecting robots.txt files.

  Spidr.site('reddit.com/', robots: true)

• Added {Spidr.robots=} and {Spidr.robots?}.

• Added {Spidr::Page#each_mailto} and {Spidr::Page#mailtos}.

• Fixed a bug in {Spidr::Agent.host} that limited spidering to only http:// URIs.

• Rescue Zlib::Error to catch Zlib::DataError and Zlib::BufError exceptions caused by web servers that use incompatible gzip compression.

• Fixed a bug in {URI.expand_path} where /../foo was being expanded to foo instead of /foo.

0.4.1 / 2011-12-08¶ ↑

• Catch OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError exceptions when initiated HTTPS Sessions.

0.4.0 / 2011-08-07¶ ↑

• Added Spidr::Headers#content_charset.

• Pass the Page url and content_charset to Nokogiri in Spidr::Body#doc. This ensures that Nokogiri will preserve the body encoding.

• Made Spidr::Headers#is_content_type? public.

• Allow Spidr::Headers#is_content_type? to match the full Content-Type or the sub-type.

0.3.2 / 2011-06-20¶ ↑

• Added separate intitialize methods for Spidr::Actions, Spidr::Events, Spidr::Filters and Spidr::Sanitizers.

• Aliased Spidr::Events#urls_like to Spidr::Events#every_url_like.

• Reduce usage of self.included and module_eval.

• Reduce usage of nested-blocks.

• Reduce usage of return.

0.3.1 / 2011-04-22¶ ↑

• Require set in spidr/headers.rb.

0.3.0 / 2011-04-14¶ ↑

• Switched from Jeweler to Ore.

• Split all header related methods out of {Spidr::Page} and into Spidr::Headers.

• Split all body related methods out of {Spidr::Page} and into Spidr::Body.

• Split all link related methods out of {Spidr::Page} and into Spidr::Links.

• Added Spidr::Headers#directory?.

• Added Spidr::Headers#json?.

• Added Spidr::Links#each_url.

• Added Spidr::Links#each_link.

• Added Spidr::Links#each_redirect.

• Added Spidr::Links#each_meta_redirect.

• Aliased Spidr::Headers#raw_cookie to Spidr::Headers#cookie.

• Aliased Spidr::Body#to_s to Spidr::Body#body.

• Also check for application/xml in Spidr::Headers#xml?.

• Catch all exceptions when merging URIs in Spidr::Links#to_absolute.

• Always prepend a / to all FTP URI paths. Fixes a Ruby 1.8 specific bug, where it expects an absolute path for all FTP URIs.

• Refactored {URI.expand_path}.

• Start the session in {Spidr::SessionCache#[]} to prevent multiple CONNECT commands being sent to HTTP Proxies (thanks falaise).

0.2.7 / 2010-08-17¶ ↑

• Added {Spidr::CookieJar#cookies_for_host} (thanks zapnap).

• Renamed Spidr::Page#cookie to Spidr::Page#raw_cookie.

• Rescue URI::InvalidComponentError exceptions in Spidr::Page#to_absolute (thanks zapnap).

0.2.6 / 2010-07-05¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug in Spidr::Page#meta_redirect, by calling Nokogiri::XML::Element#get_attribute instead of attr.

0.2.5 / 2010-07-02¶ ↑

• Added Spidr::Page#meta_redirect.

• Added Spidr::Page#meta_redirect?.

• Manage development dependencies with Bundler.

• Support following “old-school” meta-refresh redirects (thanks zapnap).

• Allow {Spidr::CookieJar} inherit cookies set by a parent domain.

• Fixed a constant lookup issue in {Spidr::Agent}.

• Use yield instead of block.call when necessary.

0.2.4 / 2010-05-05¶ ↑

• Added Spidr::Filters#visit_urls.

• Added Spidr::Filters#visit_urls_like.

• Added Spidr::Filters#ignore_urls.

• Added Spidr::Filters#ignore_urls_like.

• Added Spidr::Page#is_content_type?.

• Default Spidr::Page#body to an empty String.

• Default Spidr::Page#content_type to an empty String.

• Default Spidr::Page#content_types to an empty Array.

• Improved reliability of {Spidr::Page#is_redirect?}.

• Improved content type detection in {Spidr::Page} to handle Content-Type headers containing charsets (thanks Josh Lindsey).

0.2.3 / 2010-02-27¶ ↑

• Migrated to Jeweler, for the packaging and releasing RubyGems.

• Switched to MarkDown formatted YARD documentation.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_link.

• Added {Spidr::SessionCache#active?}.

• Added specs for {Spidr::SessionCache}.

0.2.2 / 2010-01-06¶ ↑

• Require Web Spider Obstacle Course (WSOC) >= 0.1.1.

• Integrated the new WSOC into the specs.

• Removed the built-in Web Spider Obstacle Course.

• Added Spidr::Page#content_types.

• Added Spidr::Page#cookie.

• Added Spidr::Page#cookies.

• Added Spidr::Page#cookie_params.

• Added Spidr::Sanitizers.

• Added {Spidr::SessionCache}.

• Added {Spidr::CookieJar} (thanks Nick Plante).

• Added {Spidr::AuthStore} (thanks Nick Plante).

• Added {Spidr::Agent#post_page} (thanks Nick Plante).

• Renamed Spidr::Agent#get_session to {Spidr::SessionCache#[]}.

• Renamed Spidr::Agent#kill_session to {Spidr::SessionCache#kill!}.

0.2.1 / 2009-11-25¶ ↑

• Added Spidr::Events#every_ok_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_redirect_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_timedout_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_bad_request_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_unauthorized_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_forbidden_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_missing_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_internal_server_error_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_txt_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_html_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_xml_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_xsl_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_html_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_xml_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_xsl_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_rss_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_atom_doc.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_javascript_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_css_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_rss_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_atom_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_ms_word_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_pdf_page.

• Added Spidr::Events#every_zip_page.

• Fixed a bug where {Spidr::Agent#delay} was not being used to delay requesting pages.

• Spider link and script tags in HTML pages (thanks Nick Plante).

0.2.0 / 2009-10-10¶ ↑

• Added {URI.expand_path}.

• Added Spidr::Page#search.

• Added Spidr::Page#at.

• Added Spidr::Page#title.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#failures=}.

• Added a HTTP session cache to {Spidr::Agent}, per suggestion of falter.

• Added Spidr::Agent#get_session.

• Added Spidr::Agent#kill_session.

• Added {Spidr::Settings::Proxy#proxy= Spidr.proxy=}.

• Added {Spidr::Settings::Proxy#disable_proxy! Spidr.disable_proxy!}.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#txt? to Spidr::Page#plain_text?.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#ok? to Spidr::Page#is_ok?.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#redirect? to Spidr::Page#is_redirect?.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#unauthorized? to Spidr::Page#is_unauthorized?.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#forbidden? to Spidr::Page#is_forbidden?.

• Aliased Spidr::Page#missing? to Spidr::Page#is_missing?.

• Split URL filtering code out of {Spidr::Agent} and into Spidr::Filters.

• Split URL / Page event code out of {Spidr::Agent} and into Spidr::Events.

• Split pause! / continue! / skip_link! / skip_page! methods out of {Spidr::Agent} and into Spidr::Actions.

• Fixed a bug in Spidr::Page#code, where it was not returning an Integer.

• Make sure Spidr::Page#doc returns Nokogiri::XML::Document objects for RSS/RDF/Atom pages as well.

• Fixed the handling of the Location header in Spidr::Page#links (thanks falter).

• Fixed a bug in Spidr::Page#to_absolute where trailing / characters on URI paths were not being preserved (thanks falter).

• Fixed a bug where the URI query was not being sent with the request in {Spidr::Agent#get_page} (thanks Damian Steer).

• Fixed a bug where SSL sessions were not being properly setup (thanks falter).

• Switched {Spidr::Agent#history} to be a Set, to improve search-time of the history (thanks falter).

• Switched {Spidr::Agent#failures} to a Set.

• Allow a block to be passed to {Spidr::Agent#run}, which will receive all pages visited.

• Allow Spidr::Agent#start_at and Spidr::Agent#continue! to pass blocks to {Spidr::Agent#run}.

• Made {Spidr::Agent#visit_page} public.

• Moved to YARD based documentation.

0.1.9 / 2009-06-13¶ ↑

• Upgraded to Hoe 2.0.0.

• Use Hoe.spec instead of Hoe.new.

• Use the Hoe signing task for signed gems.

• Added the Spidr::Agent#schemes and Spidr::Agent#schemes= methods.

• Added a warning message if 'net/https' cannot be loaded.

• Allow the list of acceptable URL schemes to be passed into {Spidr::Agent#initialize}.

• Allow history and queue information to be passed into {Spidr::Agent#initialize}.

• {Spidr::Agent#start_at} no longer clears the history or the queue.

• Fixed a bug in the sanitization of semi-escaped URLs.

• Fixed a bug where https URLs would be followed even if 'net/https' could not be loaded.

• Removed Spidr::Agent::SCHEMES.

0.1.8 / 2009-05-27¶ ↑

• Added the Spidr::Agent#pause! and Spidr::Agent#continue! methods.

• Added the Spidr::Agent#running? and Spidr::Agent#paused? methods.

• Added an alias for pending_urls to the queue methods.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#queue} to provide read access to the queue.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#queue=} and {Spidr::Agent#history=} for setting the queue and history.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#to_hash} which returns a Hash of the agents queue and history.

• Made {Spidr::Agent#enqueue} and {Spidr::Agent#queued?} public.

• Added more specs.

0.1.7 / 2009-04-24¶ ↑

• Added Spidr::Agent#all_headers.

• Fixed a bug where {Spidr::Page#headers} was always nil.

• {Spidr::Agent} will now follow the Location header in HTTP 300, 301, 302, 303 and 307 Redirects.

• {Spidr::Agent} will now follow iframe and frame tags.

0.1.6 / 2009-04-14¶ ↑

• Added {Spidr::Agent#failures}, a list of URLs which could not be visited.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#failed?}.

• Added Spidr::Agent#every_failed_url.

• Added {Spidr::Agent#clear}, which clears the history and failures URL lists.

• Improved fault tolerance in {Spidr::Agent#get_page}.

• If a Network or HTTP error is encountered, the URL will be added to the failures list and the next URL will be visited.

• Fixed a typo in Spidr::Agent#ignore_exts_like.

• Updated the Web Spider Obstacle Course with links that always fail to be visited.

0.1.5 / 2009-03-22¶ ↑

• Catch malformed URIs in Spidr::Page#to_absolute and return nil.

• Filter out nil URIs in Spidr::Page#urls.

0.1.4 / 2009-01-15¶ ↑

• Use Nokogiri for HTML and XML parsing.

0.1.3 / 2009-01-10¶ ↑

• Added the :host options to {Spidr::Agent#initialize}.

• Added the Web Spider Obstacle Course files to the Manifest.

• Aliased {Spidr::Agent#visited_urls} to {Spidr::Agent#history}.

0.1.2 / 2008-11-06¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug in Spidr::Page#to_absolute where URLs with no path were not receiving a default path of /.

• Fixed a bug in Spidr::Page#to_absolute where URL paths were not being expanded, in order to remove .. and . directories.

• Fixed a bug where absolute URLs could have a blank path, thus causing {Spidr::Agent#get_page} to crash when it performed the HTTP request.

• Added RSpec spec tests.

• Created a Web-Spider Obstacle Course (spidr.rubyforge.org/course/start.html) which is used in the spec tests.

0.1.1 / 2008-10-04¶ ↑

• Added a reader method for the response instance variable in Page.

• Fixed a bug in {Spidr::Page#method_missing}.

0.1.0 / 2008-05-23¶ ↑

• Initial release.

• Black-list or white-list URLs based upon:

  • Host name

  • Port number

  • Full link

  • URL extension

• Provides call-backs for:

  • Every visited Page.

  • Every visited URL.

  • Every visited URL that matches a specified pattern.