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Distribution packages moved to GitHub releases

Due to recently introduced size limits, the Heritrix distribution packages (-dist.zip and -dist.tar.gz) can no longer be published to Maven Central. Instead, they will be made available on the GitHub release page.

The individual module binary, Javadoc, and source JARs will continue to be published to Maven Central.

New features

• PaginationBehavior: Added a new behavior for BrowserProcessor that repeatedly clicks the "next-page" link and extracts links, enabling crawling of client-side paginated sites. #736

Bug fixes

• BrowserProcessor: #742
• Improved subresource request failure handling.
• Implemented recording truncation based on length and timeout limits.
• Fixed content digest calculation for subresources.
• Ensured the User-Agent header is set correctly for browser requests.
• Handle WebDriver BiDi Cookie.sameSite value default.
• Fixed a bug in where POST requests were recorded with doubled headers and trailing nulls. #737
• Error logging: The exception is now logged when creating a new job fails.
• Groovy default profile: Removed a stray closing brace }.

Dependency upgrades

• amqp-client: 5.30.0 → 5.33.0
• central-publishing-maven-plugin: 0.10.0 → 0.11.0
• dnsjava: 3.6.4 → 3.6.5
• groovy-bom: 5.0.5 → 5.0.6
• jackson-bom: 2.21.3 → 2.22.0
• jaxb-runtime: 4.0.7 → 4.0.9
• jetty (jetty-bom, jetty-ee10-bom): 12.0.34 → 12.0.36
• jsch: 2.28.2 → 2.28.3
• junit-jupiter: 6.0.3 → 6.1.1
• kafka-clients: 4.2.0 → 4.3.1
• maven-surefire-plugin: 3.5.5 → 3.5.6
• slf4j-bom: 2.0.17 → 2.0.18
• spring (spring-beans, spring-context, spring-core, spring-expression): 7.0.7 → 7.0.8

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Introduction

Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix (sometimes spelled heretrix, or misspelled or missaid as heratrix/heritix/heretix/heratix) is an archaic word for heiress (woman who inherits). Since our crawler seeks to collect and preserve the digital artifacts of our culture for the benefit of future researchers and generations, this name seemed apt.

Crawl Operators!

Heritrix is designed to respect the robots.txt exclusion directives and META nofollow tags. Please consider the

load your crawl will place on seed sites and set politeness policies accordingly. Also, always identify your crawl with contact information in the User-Agent so sites that may be adversely affected by your crawl can contact you or adapt their server behavior accordingly.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Operating Heritrix
• Configuring Crawl Jobs
• Bean Reference
• Wiki

Developer Documentation

• Developer Manual
• REST API documentation
• JavaDoc: engine, modules, commons, contrib

Latest Releases

Information about releases can be found here.

License

Heritrix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0

Some individual source code files are subject to or offered under other licenses. See the included LICENSE.txt file for more information.

Heritrix is distributed with the libraries it depends upon. The libraries can be found under the lib directory in the release distribution, and are used under the terms of their respective licenses, which are included alongside the libraries in the lib directory.