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code4craft/webmagic

A scalable web crawler framework for Java. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/code4craft/webmagic · homepage · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

60/100

  • Activity 58
  • Release rhythm 40
  • Longevity 100
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: 0.0
  • age_days: 4880
  • days_rel: 569
  • days_push: 256
  • n_releases_24m: 7

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11678 stars · 4106 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

WebMagic is a scalable web crawler framework for Java covering the full crawl lifecycle: downloading, URL management, content extraction (XPath/CSS/regex/JsonPath), and persistence. It offers a simple chainable API plus annotation-driven POJO crawlers, with multi-threading and Redis-based distributed support.

Use cases

  • scrape product prices from e-commerce sites
  • crawl github repository metadata
  • extract structured data from html pages
  • build a distributed crawler with redis
  • collect news articles into a database
  • parse web pages with xpath and css selectors

When to choose

  • you need a JVM-based crawler with a simple, extensible API
  • you want annotation-driven extraction into POJOs
  • you need multi-threaded or Redis-distributed crawling
  • you want pluggable pipelines to console, file, MySQL, or Redis

When to avoid

  • you need a headless browser for JavaScript-heavy sites
  • your stack is Python (Scrapy) or Node.js
  • you only need a one-off simple HTTP fetch
  • you need a maintained GUI scraping tool

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-scraping parser http-client etl crawlers web-development developer-tools jvm cross-platform crawler scraping xpath distributed-crawling annotation-driven data-engineering

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