You still can but it has been set to false by default in NUTCH-872. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-872
Override in your nutch-site.xml config. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/nutch/tags/release-1.3/conf/nutch- default.xml?view=markup Line 655, you can set it to true. It is not recommended. See the Jira ticket. > ... and I wonder if there is a way to change this behaviour back to let > the fetcher start the parsing. > > The syntax help of the command hasn't been updated it seems: > > root@hrz-vm180:/home/nutchServer/nutch/runtime/local/bin# ./nutch fetch > Usage: Fetcher <segment> [-threads n] [-noParsing]

