HBase-Writer is a java extension to the Heritrix open source crawler. Heritrix is written by the Internet Archive and HBase Writer enables Heritrix to store crawled content directly into HBase tables running on the Hadoop Distributed FileSystem?. By default, HBase-Writer writes crawled url content into an HBase table as individual records or "rowkeys". Each fetched url is represented by a "rowkey" in an HBaase table. However, HBase-Writer can easily be extended for custom behavior, like writing to multiple tables or anything else. In turn, these HBase tables are directly supported by the MapReduce? framework via Hadoop. HBase-Writer's goal is to facilitate in fast large distributed crawls using Heritrix and to save and manage Web-scale content using HBase.