For the latest information about Nutch, please visit our website at:

https://nutch.apache.org/

and our wiki, at:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTCH/Home

To get started using Nutch read Tutorial:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTCH/NutchTutorial

To contribute a patch, follow these instructions (note that installing Hub is not strictly required, but is recommended).

0. Download and install hub.github.com
1. File JIRA issue for your fix at https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/NUTCH/issues
- you will get issue id NUTCH-xxx where xxx is the issue ID.
2. git clone https://github.com/apache/nutch.git
3. cd nutch
4. git checkout -b NUTCH-xxx
5. edit files (please try and include a test case if possible)
6. git status (make sure it shows what files you expected to edit)
7. Make sure that your code complies with the [Nutch codeformatting template](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/nutch/master/eclipse-codeformat.xml), which is basially two space indents
8. git add <files>
9. git commit -m “fix for NUTCH-xxx contributed by <your username>”
10. git fork
11. git push -u <your git username> NUTCH-xxx
12. git pull-request

Generate Eclipse project files

ant eclipse

and follow the instructions in Importing existing projects.

For Intellij IDEA, first install the IvyIDEA Plugin. then run ant eclipse.

Then open the project in IntelliJ. You may see popups like "Ant build scripts found", "Frameworks detected - IvyIDEA Framework detected". Just follow the simple steps in these dialogs.

You must configure the nutch-site.xml before running. Make sure, you've added http.agent.name and plugin.folders properties. The plugin.folders normally points to <project_root>/build/plugins.

Now create a Java Application Configuration, choose org.apache.nutch.crawl.Injector, add two paths as arguments. First one is the crawldb directory, second one is the URL directory where, the injector can read urls. Now run your configuration.

If we still see the No plugins found on paths of property plugin.folders="plugins", update the plugin.folders in the nutch-default.xml, this is a quick fix, but should not be used.