StormCrawler

StormCrawler is an open-source collection of resources for

building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. It
StormCrawler
is provided under Apache License and is written mostly in Java Developer(s) DigitalPebble, Ltd.
(programming language). Initial release September 11, 2014
StormCrawler is modular and consists of a core module, which Stable release 2.8 / March 29,
provides the basic building blocks of a web crawler such as 2023
fetching, parsing, URL filtering. Apart from the core components, Repository github.com
the project also provides external resources, like for instance
/DigitalPebble
spout and bolts for Elasticsearch and Apache Solr or a ParserBolt
which uses Apache Tika to parse various document formats. /storm-crawler (http
s://github.com/Digita
The project is used by various organisations,[1] notably Common lPebble/storm-crawl
Crawl[2] for generating a large and publicly available dataset of er)
news.
Written in Java
Linux published a Q&A in October 2016 with the author of Type Web crawler
StormCrawler.[3] InfoQ ran one in December 2016.[4] A License Apache License
comparative benchmark with Apache Nutch was published in
Website stormcrawler.net (ht
January 2017 on dzone.com.[5]
tp://stormcrawler.ne
Several research papers mentioned the use of StormCrawler, in t)
particular:

Crawling the German Health Web: Exploratory Study and Graph Analysis.[6]
The generation of a multi-million page corpus for the Persian language.[7]
The SIREN - Security Information Retrieval and Extraction engine.[8]

The project Wiki contains a list of videos and slides available online.[9]

See also
Apache Storm
Apache Nutch
Apache Solr
Elasticsearch

References
1. "Powered By · DigitalPebble/storm-crawler Wiki · GitHub" (https://github.com/DigitalPebble/s
torm-crawler/wiki/Powered-By). Github.com. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
2. "News Dataset Available – Common Crawl" (http://commoncrawl.org/2016/10/news-dataset-
available/).
 3. "StormCrawler: An Open Source SDK for Building Web Crawlers with ApacheStorm |
Linux.com | The source for Linux information" (https://www.linux.com/news/stormcrawler-ope
n-source-sdk-building-web-crawlers-apachestorm). Linux.com. 2016-10-12. Retrieved
2017-04-19.
4. "Julien Nioche on StormCrawler, Open-Source Crawler Pipelines Backed by Apache Storm"
(http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/nioche-stormcrawler-web-crawler). Infoq.com. 2016-12-
15. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
5. "The Battle of the Crawlers: Apache Nutch vs. StormCrawler - DZone Big Data" (https://dzon
e.com/articles/the-battle-of-the-crawlers-apache-nutch-vs-stormcr). Dzone.com. Retrieved
2017-04-19.
6. Zowalla, Richard; Wetter, Thomas; Pfeifer, Daniel (2020). "Crawling the German Health
Web: Exploratory Study and Graph Analysis" (https://www.jmir.org/2020/7/e17853/). Journal
of Medical Internet Research. 22 (7): e17853. doi:10.2196/17853 (https://doi.org/10.2196%2
F17853). PMC 7414401 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7414401).
PMID 32706701 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32706701).
7. "MirasText: An Automatically Generated Text Corpus for Persian" (https://www.researchgate.
net/publication/325324201).
8. Sanagavarapu, Lalit Mohan; Mathur, Neeraj; Agrawal, Shriyansh; Reddy, Y. Raghu (2018).
Advances in Information Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 10772.
pp. 811–814. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_81 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-76
941-7_81). ISBN 978-3-319-76940-0.
9. "Presentations · DigitalPebble/storm-crawler Wiki · GitHub" (https://github.com/DigitalPebbl
e/storm-crawler/wiki/Presentations). Github.com. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-19.

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