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Apache Nutch vs Heritrix

A side-by-side look at Apache Nutch and Heritrix. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Apache Nutch

Apache Nutch

Development

Apache Nutch is an open source web crawler software project written in Java. It is used to build web search engines and web archiving systems. Nutch can crawl websites and index page content and metadata.

web-crawlersearch-enginejava
Heritrix

Heritrix

Development

Heritrix is an open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project built on the Apache stack. It is designed for archiving periodic captures of content from the web and large intranets.

archivingweb-crawleropen-source

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