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A ruby gem maker that will make any part of a website into a gem.

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Description

Gem It is a web app that users can enter a url and make mini scraping gem with its content.

Background

This app was made with Ruby Developers in mind. Having had the frustration of wanting snippets of information from a website and not wanting to make a scraper to simply retrieve the information we decided we needed a better way.

Features

  • Grab text, links, or and media paths from a website
  • Said information is pacakaged into an easy to use gem.
  • Gem It can now retieve any computed CSS on the website of your choice!

Usage

How to use Gem It

  1. Sign in with Github so we can set up a repo.
  2. Submit the URL you want us to scrape from.
  3. Click however many targets on that page you want.
  4. Fill out some details.

How to use one of our gems
Run these commands in your terminal to will install your gem.
git clone git@github.com:YourUserName/YourGem.git.
cd YourGem
gem install YourGem

Command Line
Call it with YourGem

Rails
require 'YourGem', git: 'git@github.com:YourUserName/YourGem.git.'
a_variable = YourGem::Magick.new.call
a_variable.your_method

Development/Contribution

Have a problem with the website? Want a new feature? Leave an issue or Fork Us!

Future

Currently, we're working on allowing users to grab information from multiple websites with one gem. If you have any suggestion please let us know!

Author

Our gems are cut with love by Tristan, George, and Patrick.

License

Gem It is MIT Licensed. Use any or all of it as you see fit.

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