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yasserg/crawler4j

Open Source Web Crawler for Java observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/yasserg/crawler4j · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5359
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1763
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4618 stars · 1897 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

crawler4j is an open-source web crawler library for Java that provides a simple interface for building multi-threaded web crawlers in minutes. Users extend a WebCrawler class to decide which URLs to visit and how to process fetched pages.

Use cases

  • crawl a website and extract all pages
  • build a multi-threaded web crawler in Java
  • scrape HTML content and extract links from pages
  • collect data from websites for indexing or analysis
  • filter which URLs the crawler should visit
  • download and parse web pages at scale

When to choose

  • you need a simple, ready-to-use crawler on the JVM
  • you want multi-threaded crawling with minimal setup
  • you need URL filtering and HTML parsing out of the box

When to avoid

  • you need a JavaScript-rendered (headless browser) crawler
  • you need a distributed or highly scalable crawling system
  • you're not working on the JVM platform
  • you need actively maintained software with recent releases

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

web-scraping http-client parser crawlers web-development developer-tools jvm cross-platform web-crawler java multi-threaded html-parsing

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