Open Source Java Web Scrapers for Windows

jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for fetching URLs and extracting and manipulating data, using the best of HTML5 DOM methods and CSS selectors. jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do. jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree. The parser will make every attempt to create a clean parse from the HTML you provide, regardless of whether the HTML is well-formed or not. You have HTML in a Java String, and you want to parse that HTML to get at its contents, or to make sure it's well formed, or to modify it. The String may have come from user input, a file, or from the web.

Web data extraction (web data mining, web scraping) tool. It leverages well proved XML and text processing techologies in order to easely extract useful data from arbitrary web pages.

HtmlClient provides an SGML/HTML/XHTML parser and connection client making web-spidering as easy for developers as actually surfing the web with a premade browser. Based on Apache's HttpClient.

Simple-Scrape is a simple web-scraping library that allows for programmatic access to HTML code. No further techniques are needed and the library is very compact and thus easy to use.

crawler4j is an open source web crawler for Java which provides a simple interface for crawling the Web. Using it, you can setup a multi-threaded web crawler in few minutes. You need to create a crawler class that extends WebCrawler. This class decides which URLs should be crawled and handles the downloaded page. shouldVisit function decides whether the given URL should be crawled or not. In the above example, this example is not allowing .css, .js and media files and only allows pages within ics domain. visit function is called after the content of a URL is downloaded successfully. You can easily get the url, text, links, html, and unique id of the downloaded page. You should also implement a controller class which specifies the seeds of the crawl, the folder in which intermediate crawl data should be stored and the number of concurrent threads.