For the latest information about Nutch, please visit our website at:
and our wiki, at:
https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/
To get started using Nutch read Tutorial:
https://wiki.apache.org/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/browse/NUTCH
- 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://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/nutch/branches/2.x/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
This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See https://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.
The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object code and source code.
The following provides more details on the included cryptographic software:
Apache Nutch uses the PDFBox API in its parse-tika plugin for extracting textual content and metadata from encrypted PDF files. See https://pdfbox.apache.org for more details on PDFBox.