Java bindings for crawlberg — a high-performance Rust web crawling engine. Uses the Panama FFM API (Java 21+) for zero-overhead native calls with full type safety.
- Same crawler as every binding — one Rust engine behind Python, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, .NET, PHP, Elixir, Dart, Kotlin Android, Swift, Zig, WASM, and C FFI.
- Structured scrape output — HTML, Markdown, metadata, links, assets, response headers, and extraction warnings with consistent field names.
- Crawl controls — depth, page limits, concurrency, URL filters, robots/sitemap handling, rate limits, and partial failure reporting.
- Rendering path — optional browser rendering for JavaScript-heavy pages; direct HTTP path for fast static pages.
- Java package — Panama FFM binding for direct native calls.
<dependency>
<groupId>io.xberg.crawlberg</groupId>
<artifactId>crawlberg</artifactId>
<version>1.0.3</version>
</dependency>
The crawlberg plugin is available via the xberg-io/plugins marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add xberg-io/plugins
/plugin install crawlberg@xberg
Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Factory Droid, GitHub Copilot CLI, and opencode. See the marketplace README for harness-specific install instructions.
import java.util.Optional;
import io.xberg.crawlberg.CrawlConfig;
import io.xberg.crawlberg.CrawlEngineHandle;
import io.xberg.crawlberg.CrawlResult;
import io.xberg.crawlberg.Crawlberg;
import io.xberg.crawlberg.ScrapeResult;
public final class BasicUsage {
private BasicUsage() { }
public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
// Simplest case: scrape a single page with default settings.
CrawlEngineHandle engine = Crawlberg.createEngine();
ScrapeResult result = Crawlberg.scrape(engine, "https://example.com/");
System.out.println("Title: " + result.metadata().title());
System.out.println("Status: " + result.statusCode());
System.out.println("Links found: " + result.links().size());
// Crawl from a seed URL, limited to one hop and a handful of pages.
CrawlConfig config = CrawlConfig.builder()
.withMaxDepth(Optional.of(1L))
.withMaxPages(Optional.of(5L))
.build();
CrawlEngineHandle crawlEngine = Crawlberg.createEngine(config);
CrawlResult crawlResult = Crawlberg.crawl(
crawlEngine,
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"
);
System.out.println("Pages crawled: " + crawlResult.pages().size());
}
}Full API documentation is available at docs.crawlberg.xberg.io.
Key functions:
create_engine(config?)— Create a crawl engine with optional configurationscrape(engine, url)— Scrape a single URLcrawl(engine, url)— Crawl a website following linksmap_urls(engine, url)— Discover all pages on a sitebatch_scrape(engine, urls)— Scrape multiple URLs concurrentlybatch_crawl(engine, urls)— Crawl multiple seed URLs concurrently
Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.
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- Xberg Enterprise — managed extraction API with SDKs, dashboards, and observability.
- crawlberg — web crawling and scraping with HTML→Markdown and headless-Chrome fallback.
- html-to-markdown — fast, lossless HTML→Markdown engine.
- liter-llm — universal LLM API client with native bindings for 14 languages and 143 providers.
- tree-sitter-language-pack — tree-sitter grammars and code-intelligence primitives.
- alef — the polyglot binding generator that produces every per-language binding across the 5 polyglot repos.
- Discord — community, roadmap, announcements.
This project is licensed under MIT License.