diff --git a/contrib/pom.xml b/contrib/pom.xml
index f0994523..6e048084 100644
--- a/contrib/pom.xml
+++ b/contrib/pom.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@
 			<version>${project.version}</version>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.rabbitmq</groupId>
+			<artifactId>amqp-client</artifactId>
+			<version>3.2.1</version>
+		</dependency>
 	</dependencies>
 	<repositories>
 		<repository>
diff --git a/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/AMQPPublishProcessor.java b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/AMQPPublishProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9035a8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/AMQPPublishProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
+ *  contributors. 
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.archive.modules;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.archive.modules.fetcher.FetchHTTP;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Required;
+
+import com.rabbitmq.client.Channel;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.Connection;
+import com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory;
+
+/**
+
+ * @author eldondev
+ * @version $Date$, $Revision$
+ */
+public class AMQPPublishProcessor extends Processor {
+
+	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+	private static final Logger logger =
+			Logger.getLogger(AMQPPublishProcessor.class.getName());
+
+
+	protected String amqpUri = null;
+	protected Connection connection = null;
+
+	public String getAmqpUri() {
+		return this.amqpUri;
+	}
+	
+	@Required
+	public void setAmqpUri(String uri) {
+		this.amqpUri = uri; 
+	}
+
+	transient protected ThreadLocal<Channel> threadChannel = 
+			new ThreadLocal<Channel>();
+
+	private String queueName = "umbra";
+
+	public String getQueueName() {
+		return queueName;
+	}
+
+	public void setQueueName(String queueName) {
+		this.queueName = queueName;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Constructor.
+	 */
+	public AMQPPublishProcessor() {
+		super();
+	}
+
+	protected boolean shouldProcess(CrawlURI curi) {
+        if (!(curi.getUURI().getScheme().equals(FetchHTTP.HTTP_SCHEME) || curi.getUURI().getScheme().equals(FetchHTTP.HTTPS_SCHEME))) {
+            // handles only plain http and https
+            return false;
+        }
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	protected void innerProcess(CrawlURI uri) throws InterruptedException {
+		try {
+			Channel channel = getChannel();
+			if(channel != null) {
+				JSONObject message = new JSONObject();
+				message.put("url", uri.toString());
+				channel.basicPublish(queueName, "url", null, message.toString().getBytes());
+			}
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Attempting to send URI to AMQP server failed!", e);
+		}
+	};
+
+	protected synchronized Channel getChannel() {
+		if (threadChannel.get() == null) {
+			if(connection == null) {
+				connect();
+			}
+			try {
+				if(connection != null) {
+						threadChannel.set(connection.createChannel());
+				}
+			} catch (IOException e) {
+				logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Attempting to create channel for AMQP connection failed!", e);
+			}
+		}
+		return threadChannel.get();
+	}
+
+	private synchronized void connect() {
+		ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
+		try {
+			factory.setUri(amqpUri);
+			connection =  factory.newConnection();
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Attempting to connect to AMQP server failed!", e);
+		}
+	}
+	
+	synchronized public void stop() {
+		try {
+			if(connection != null && connection.isOpen()) {
+				connection.close();
+			}
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Attempting to close AMQP connection failed!", e);
+		}
+	}
+}