Maven Crawler

This is a tool for crawling Maven repositories and gathering Maven coordinates. It can be used for research and education purposes.

Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.5 or newer
• Apache Kafka (optional)

Quick install

pip install mvncrawler

Usage

mvncrawler --p ./maven/ --q q_items.txt  --t "fasten.mvn.pkg" --c 5 --l 10

It extracts 10 Maven coordinates.

• Use --help option to see the description of each arguments.
• If you do not have a Kafka server on your machine, add --no-kafka option to the tool for saving Maven coordinates in a file.
• You can remove --l 10 option to extract Maven coordinates without a limit.

Output format

Extracted Maven coordinates are converted to a JSON-compatible string as shown and described below:

{"groupId": "com.yahoo.vespa", "artifactId": "zookeeper-server-common", "version": "7.171.10", "date": "1580860140", "url": "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/yahoo/vespa/zookeeper-server-common/7.171.10/zookeeper-server-common-7.171.10.pom"}

• groupId: The specified groupID in a POM file.
• artifactId: The specified artifactID in a POM file.
• version: The version of a Maven package as specified in its POM file.
• date: The release date of a Maven package in Unix epoch format.
• url: The URL of a POM file on the Maven server.

Disclaimer

We are NOT responsible for any damage or the misuse of this tool.