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CrawlScript/WebCollector

WebCollector is an open source web crawler framework based on Java.It provides some simple interfaces for crawling the Web,you can setup a multi-threaded web crawler in less than 5 minutes. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/CrawlScript/WebCollector · homepage · Java · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

62/100

  • Activity 66
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4435
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 204
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3083 stars · 1427 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

WebCollector is an open-source Java web crawler framework that provides simple interfaces for building multi-threaded web crawlers quickly. It supports features like cookies, POST requests, proxies, and Selenium-based JavaScript rendering.

Use cases

  • crawl websites to collect pages
  • build a multi-threaded web crawler in Java
  • scrape news articles from the web
  • crawl JavaScript-rendered pages with Selenium
  • collect data for building a search index
  • crawl sites through rotating proxies

When to choose

  • you need a quick-to-setup crawler on the JVM
  • you want a lightweight Java alternative to Scrapy-style crawling
  • you need multi-threaded crawling with proxy and cookie support

When to avoid

  • you need a distributed, large-scale crawling platform
  • your stack is Python or Node.js rather than Java
  • you need heavy-duty headless-browser automation beyond simple rendering

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

web-scraping http-client parser crawlers web-development jvm cross-platform web-crawler multi-threaded selenium java-framework search-engine-crawling data-engineering

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