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The shell scripts included with Nutch are great, but require a shell. Some IT departments may not allow cygwin to be installed on their windows clients. Alternatives (well, at least one) are listed below.
A quick python port of the 'nutch' shell script (as of 9-11-06 it has only been tested in windows):
import os, sys, glob
# The Nutch command script
#
# Environment Variables
#
# NUTCH_JAVA_HOME The java implementation to use. Overrides JAVA_HOME.
#
# NUTCH_HEAPSIZE The maximum amount of heap to use, in MB.
# Default is 1000.
#
# NUTCH_OPTS Extra Java runtime options.
#
# ported to python by Ben Ogle (ogle dot ben [at] gmail)
#does not handle links.
thisdir = os.getcwd()
cpsep = ":"
if( os.name == "nt" ):
cpsep = ";"
if( len(sys.argv) == 1 ):
print "Usage: python nutch.py COMMAND"
print "where COMMAND is one of:"
print " crawl one-step crawler for intranets"
print " readdb read / dump crawl db"
print " mergedb merge crawldb-s, with optional filtering"
print " readlinkdb read / dump link db"
print " inject inject new urls into the database"
print " generate generate new segments to fetch"
print " fetch fetch a segment's pages"
print " parse parse a segment's pages"
print " segread read / dump segment data"
print " mergesegs merge several segments, with optional filtering and slicing"
print " updatedb update crawl db from segments after fetching"
print " invertlinks create a linkdb from parsed segments"
print " mergelinkdb merge linkdb-s, with optional filtering"
print " index run the indexer on parsed segments and linkdb"
print " merge merge several segment indexes"
print " dedup remove duplicates from a set of segment indexes"
print " plugin load a plugin and run one of its classes main()"
print " server run a search server"
print " or"
print " CLASSNAME run the class named CLASSNAME"
print "Most commands print help when invoked w/o parameters."
sys.exit(1)
command = sys.argv[1]
#print "COMMAND: " + command
nutch_home = thisdir + "/.."
java_home = os.getenv("NUTCH_JAVA_HOME")
if(java_home != None):
os.setenv("JAVA_HOME", java_home)
print java_home
java_home = os.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
if(java_home == None):
print "Error: JAVA_HOME is not set."
exit(1)
java = java_home + "/bin/java.exe"
java_heap_max = "-Xmx1000m"
nutch_heap_sz = os.getenv("NUTCH_HEAPSIZE")
if(nutch_heap_sz != None):
java_heap_max = "-Xmx"+ nutch_heap_sz +"m"
#print java_heap_max
classpath = nutch_home + "/conf"
classpath = classpath + cpsep + nutch_home + "/lib/tools.jar"
# for developers, add plugins, job & test code to CLASSPATH
if( os.path.exists( nutch_home + "/build/plugins" ) ):
classpath = classpath + cpsep + nutch_home + "/build/plugins"
flist = glob.glob(nutch_home + "/build/nutch-*.job")
for l in flist:
classpath = classpath + cpsep + l
if( os.path.exists( nutch_home + "/build/test/classes" ) ):
classpath = classpath + cpsep + nutch_home + "/build/test/classes"
flist = glob.glob(nutch_home + "/nutch-*.job")
for l in flist:
classpath = classpath + cpsep + l
if( os.path.exists( nutch_home + "/plugins" ) ):
classpath = classpath + cpsep + nutch_home + "/plugins"
flist = glob.glob(nutch_home + "/lib/*.jar")
for l in flist:
classpath = classpath + cpsep + l
flist = glob.glob(nutch_home + "/lib/jetty-ext/*.jar")
for l in flist:
classpath = classpath + cpsep + l
#print classpath
nutch_log_dir = os.getenv("NUTCH_LOG_DIR")
if(nutch_log_dir == None):
nutch_log_dir = nutch_home + "/logs"
nutch_log_file = os.getenv("NUTCH_LOGFILE")
if(nutch_log_file == None):
nutch_log_file = "hadoop.log"
nutch_opts = os.getenv("NUTCH_OPTS")
if( nutch_opts == None ):
nutch_opts = ""
nutch_opts = nutch_opts + " -Dhadoop.log.dir=" + nutch_log_dir
nutch_opts = nutch_opts + " -Dhadoop.log.file=" + nutch_log_file
# figure out which class to run
theclass = command
if ( command == "crawl" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.Crawl"
elif ( command == "inject" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.Injector"
elif ( command == "generate" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.Generator"
elif ( command == "fetch" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.fetcher.Fetcher"
elif ( command == "parse" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseSegment"
elif ( command == "readdb" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDbReader"
elif ( command == "mergedb" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDbMerger"
elif ( command == "readlinkdb" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.LinkDbReader"
elif ( command == "segread" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.segment.SegmentReader"
elif ( command == "mergesegs" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.segment.SegmentMerger"
elif ( command == "updatedb" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.CrawlDb"
elif ( command == "invertlinks" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.LinkDb"
elif ( command == "mergelinkdb" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.crawl.LinkDbMerger"
elif ( command == "index" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.indexer.Indexer"
elif ( command == "dedup" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.indexer.DeleteDuplicates"
elif ( command == "merge" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.indexer.IndexMerger"
elif ( command == "plugin" ):
theclass="org.apache.nutch.plugin.PluginRepository"
elif ( command == "server" ):
#what goes in place of the $Server?
theclass="org.apache.nutch.searcher.DistributedSearch$Server"
args = ""
for i in range(2, len(sys.argv)):
args = args + " " + sys.argv[i]
#windows doesnt like this even though there are quotes around it...
#"\"" + java +"\" "
cmdtorun = "java " + java_heap_max + " " + nutch_opts + " -classpath \"" + classpath + "\" " + theclass + args
#print cmdtorun
os.system(cmdtorun)