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What is a good open source web crawler? [closed]

I'm looking for a good open source web crawler and i found these: DataparkSearch, GNU Wget, GRUB, Heritrix, ht://Dig, HTTrack, ICDL, mnoGoSearch, Nutch, Open Search Server, PHP-Crawler, tkWWW Robot, ...
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Free standalone crawlers

Are there any free standalone crawlers that I can use apart from Google webmaster to analyze errors? Something that shows me all 404's, errors etc
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What user agent should I set?

There is Ask bot, which sets this header: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma) Considering this, I have the following questions: If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent ...