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Otis Gospodnetic commented on NUTCH-585: ---------------------------------------- A more general solution is needed. This solution should not rely on apriori marked-up content as in your example, but should automatically recognize things like footers, sidebars, repeating navigation and other elements, etc. I am sure there are PhD thesis out there on this topic... > [PARSE-HTML plugin] Block certain parts of HTML code from being indexed > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: NUTCH-585 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-585 > Project: Nutch > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.9.0 > Environment: All operating systems > Reporter: Andrea Spinelli > Priority: Minor > > We are using nutch to index our own web sites; we would like not to index > certain parts of our pages, because we know they are not relevant (for > instance, there are several links to change the background color) and > generate spurious matches. > We have modified the plugin so that it ignores HTML code between certain HTML > comments, like > <!-- START-IGNORE --> > ... ignored part ... > <!-- STOP-IGNORE --> > We feel this might be useful to someone else, maybe factorizing the comment > strings as constants in the configuration files (say parser.html.ignore.start > and parser.html.ignore.stop in nutch-site.xml). > We are almost ready to contribute our code snippet. Looking forward for any > expression of interest - or for an explanation why waht we are doing is > plain wrong! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.