Installing Apache Nutch

Apache Nutch comes in two versions (1.x and 2.x). For this example, we'll be using version 1.x, as it contains a binary that will help reduce the time taken to build version 2.x from scratch. The latest stable version of Apache Nutch (v1.10), which also contains a binary at the time of writing this book, can be installed by following these steps:

1. Download and unzip Apache Nutch (apache-nutch-1.10-bin.tar.gz) from http://nutch.apache.org/downloads.html.

2. Extract the archive file into a folder of your choice. We'll use %NUTCH_HOME% as the folder where the ZIP file is to be extracted.

   

Note

On Windows, we can install Cygwin by going to the installation link at http://cygwin.com/install.html.

Let's verify the downloaded archive by going to %NUTCH_HOME%/bin. It will contain the Nutch script, which we can execute. We run the following command to get a list of available options that we can use:

$ cd %NUTCH_HOME%/bin
$ ./nutch

We should get the following output from the command:

Usage...