From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T18:51:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance comparison between screen scrapers

On 1/11/07, Conrad Chu <conradchu@conradchu.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how the following screen scrapers perform against one
> another?
>
> * ScrAPI
> * RubyfulSoup
> * HTree
> * Hpricot
>
> I'm trying to write up a tool where a person enters in a URL, and I use
> an AJAX call to scrape the contents of that URL for title, description,
> etc.  So speed is really important (I suppose, regular expressions would
> be the fastest, but I need something that is tree-based and supports
> HTML tidying)
>
> Thanks
> Conrad

There was a comparision done on this list some time ago. Search for lib names.