What do you need to create a web bot in Ruby?

Question

ruby

I thought about creating a bot that, under certain conditions, will follow links on the page, fill out forms, click on buttons. That is, in fact, a bot-clicker for automation. I want to use Ruby for this, as I know a little about it and in general for learning. What do you need to know for all this, where to look, what to read?

Answer 1

Pay attention to the libraries that are used in testing to simulate user actions, which is what is required of the bot. Capybara + PhantomJS , and if the result needs to be parsed then Nokogiri . I have written over a hundred crawlers on this stack.

Answer 2

You can use the nokogiri + mechanize
gem bundle ruby.bastardsbook.com/chapters/mechanize

Answer 3

zennoposter handles link clicks/form fills/button clicks and other web automation . For 9 years of the existence of the software, templates have been created for all occasions, and if something is missing, then create it yourself / order it. If you need a quick result, and not specifically development practice, then I see no reason to fence bicycles.
If you need specifically "in general for studying", then cover yourself with books and study the subject area on a specific task - as you master it, make your bot, what is the essence of the question then?
I just don't know how Ruby is suitable for this. Still, in automation, Python rules more with its libraries for all cases + there are specific manuals, for example . I haven't seen this with Ruby.