Aperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems. It could crawl and extract information from File system, Websites, Mail boxes and Mail servers. It supports various file formats like Office, PDF, Zip and lot more. Metadata information is extracted from image files. Aperture has a strong focus on semantics, metadata extracted could be mapped to predefined properties.

Aperture - Java framework for getting data and metadata

Norconex HTTP Collector is a full-featured web crawler (or spider) that can manipulate and store collected data into a repositoriy of your choice (e.g. a search engine). It very flexible, powerful, easy to extend, and portable.

Norconex HTTP Collector - Enterprise Web Crawler

Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc. Its main feature include
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	<LI>Fetching, parsing and indexation in parallel and distributed</LI>
	<LI>Plugin support</LI>
	<LI>Ontology</LI>
	<LI>Clustering</LI>
	<LI>Distributed filesystem (via Hadoop)</LI>
	<LI>Link-graph database</LI>
	<LI>NTLM authentication</LI>
	<LI>MapReduce</LI>
	<LI>Many formats: plain text, HTML, XML, ZIP, OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), PDF, JavaScript, RSS, RTF, MP3 (ID3 tags)</LI>
 </UL>

Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc.

Nutch - Highly extensible, highly scalable Web crawler

YaCy (read "ya see") is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. It is distributed on several hundred computers so-called YaCy-peers. Each YaCy-peer independently crawls through the Internet, analyzes and indexes found web pages, and stores indexing results in a common database which is shared with other YaCy-peers using principles of P2P networks.

YaCy - Decentralized Web Search

Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix is designed to respect the robots.txt exclusion directives and META robots tags, and collect material at a measured, adaptive pace unlikely to disrupt normal website activity. <BR><BR>It provides web interface for operator control and monitoring of crawls. It stores content to ARC or ISO WARC aggregate/transcript format.

Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix is designed to respect the robots.txt exclusion directives and META robots tags, and collect material at a measured, adaptive pace unlikely to disrupt normal website activity.

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Norconex HTTP Collector is a web spider, or crawler that aims to make Enterprise Search integrators and developers's life easier. It is Portable, Extensible, reusable, Robots.txt support, Obtain and manipulate document metadata, Resumable upon failure and lot more.

Norconex HTTP Collector - A Web Crawler in Java

StormCrawler is an open source collection of resources for building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. StormCrawler is a library and collection of resources that developers can leverage to build their own crawlers. The good news is that doing so can be pretty straightforward. Often, all you'll have to do will be to declare StormCrawler as a Maven dependency, write your own Topology class (tip : you can extend ConfigurableTopology), reuse the components provided by the project and maybe write a couple of custom ones for your own secret sauce. 

Storm Crawler - Web crawler SDK based on Apache Storm 

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