Google Cloud Search Apache Nutch Indexer Plugin

The Google Cloud Search Apache Nutch indexer plugin extends existing Apache Nutch installation to crawl and index content to Google Cloud Search with support for ACLs and metadata.

This connector is an implementation of the Apache Nutch Indexer Plugin API.

Build instructions

1. Build the connector

   a. Clone the connector repository from GitHub:

   git clone https://github.com/google-cloudsearch/apache-nutch-indexer-plugin.git
   cd apache-nutch-indexer-plugin
   

   b. Checkout the desired version of the connector and build the ZIP file:

   git checkout tags/v1-0.0.5
   mvn package
   

   (To skip the tests when building the connector, use mvn package -DskipTests)

2. Download Apache Nutch 1.15 and follow the Apache Nutch instructions (https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/NutchTutorial) to install.

3. Extract target/google-cloudsearch-apache-nutch-indexer-plugin-v1.0.0.5.zip built from step 2 to a folder. Copy plugins/indexer-google-cloud-search folder to the Apache Nutch install plugins folder (apache-nutch-1.15/plugins).

For further information on configuration and deployment of this indexer plugin, see Deploy an Apache Nutch Indexer Plugin.