diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 setuptools
 xmltodict
 iso8601
+beautifulsoup4
diff --git a/swh/lister/core/tests/conftest.py b/swh/lister/core/tests/conftest.py
--- a/swh/lister/core/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/swh/lister/core/tests/conftest.py
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@
         'swh.lister.npm.tasks',
         'swh.lister.pypi.tasks',
         'swh.lister.phabricator.tasks',
+        'swh.lister.maven_central.tasks',
     ]
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/__init__.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/lister.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/lister.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven_central/lister.py
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2018 the Software Heritage developers
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+from .models import Maven_CentralModel
+
+from swh.scheduler import utils
+from swh.lister.core.simple_lister import SimpleLister
+from swh.lister.core.lister_transports import ListerOnePageApiTransport
+
+
+class Maven_CentralLister(ListerOnePageApiTransport, SimpleLister):
+    MODEL = Maven_CentralModel
+    LISTER_NAME = 'maven_central'
+    PAGE = 'http://central.maven.org/maven2/'
+    _packages = []
+
+    def __init__(self, override_config=None):
+        ListerOnePageApiTransport .__init__(self)
+        SimpleLister.__init__(self, override_config=override_config)
+
+    def task_dict(self, origin_type, origin_url, **kwargs):
+        """(Override) Return task format dict
+
+        This is overridden from the lister_base as more information is
+        needed for the ingestion task creation.
+
+        """
+        _type = 'origin-update-%s' % origin_type
+        _policy = 'recurring'
+        project_name = kwargs.get('name')
+        project_metadata_url = kwargs.get('html_url')
+        return utils.create_task_dict(
+            _type, _policy, project_name, origin_url,
+            project_metadata_url=project_metadata_url)
+
+    def list_packages(self, response):
+        """(Override) List the actual maven central origins from the response.
+
+        """
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="lxml")
+        groups = []
+        for b in soup.find_all('a'):
+            groups.append(b.text)
+
+        for group in groups[1:-6]:
+            self.find_packages_recursively(group, self.PAGE)
+
+        return self._packages
+
+    def find_packages_recursively(self, package_name, url):
+        """
+        Visits all the directories recursively and populate _packages variable
+        with all the packages present in different groups.
+        """
+        self.PAGE = url+package_name
+        response = self.safely_issue_request(1)
+        file_system = file_structure(response)
+
+        if 'maven-metadata.xml' in file_system:
+            package = {
+                'name': package_name[:-1],
+                'url': url+package_name,
+                'metadata_url': url+package_name + 'maven-metadata.xml'
+            }
+            self._packages.append(package)
+            return None
+
+        # Some packages don't have maven-metadata.xml file, to deal with those
+        # cases this loop checks of there is no more directory to visit in the
+        # file system, hence it has reached the package file.
+        for files in file_system:
+            if files[-1] != '/':
+                previous_directory = special_name(url)
+                package = {
+                    'name': previous_directory,
+                    'url': url,
+                    'metadata_url': None
+                    }
+                self._packages.append(package)
+                return None
+
+        for directory in file_system:
+            self.find_packages_recursively(directory, url+package_name)
+
+        return None
+
+    def get_model_from_repo(self, repo):
+        """(Override) Transform from repository representation to model
+
+        """
+        return {
+            'uid': repo['name'],
+            'name': repo['name'],
+            'full_name': repo['name'],
+            'html_url': repo['metadata_url'],
+            'origin_url': repo['url'],
+            'origin_type': 'maven_central',
+            'description': None,
+        }
+
+    def transport_response_simplified(self, response):
+        """(Override) Transform response to list for model manipulation
+
+        """
+        return [self.get_model_from_repo(repo) for repo in response]
+
+
+def file_structure(response):
+    '''
+    Lists all the files and folders present in the response
+
+    Args :
+        HTML response
+
+    Returns:
+        List of all the files and folders
+    '''
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="lxml")
+    files = []
+    for row in soup.find_all('a'):
+        files.append(row.text)
+    return files[1:]
+
+
+def special_name(url):
+    '''
+    Construct name of package from url for those packages which
+    do not have maven-metadata.xml file
+    '''
+    position_in_url = ([pos for pos, char in enumerate(url) if char == '/'])
+    name = url[position_in_url[-2]+1:position_in_url[-1]]
+    return name
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/models.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/models.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven_central/models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2018 the Software Heritage developers
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+from sqlalchemy import Column, String
+
+from ..core.models import ModelBase
+
+
+class Maven_CentralModel(ModelBase):
+    """a Maven Central repository representation
+
+    """
+    __tablename__ = 'maven_central_repo'
+
+    uid = Column(String, primary_key=True)
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/tasks.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/tasks.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven_central/tasks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2018 the Software Heritage developers
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+from swh.scheduler.celery_backend.config import app
+
+from .lister import Maven_CentralLister
+
+
+@app.task(name=__name__ + '.Maven_CentralListerTask')
+def maven_central_lister(**lister_args):
+    Maven_CentralLister(**lister_args).run()
+
+
+@app.task(name=__name__ + '.ping')
+def ping():
+    return 'OK'
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/__init__.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/conftest.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+from swh.lister.core.tests.conftest import *  # noqa
diff --git a/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/test_tasks.py b/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/test_tasks.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/lister/maven_central/tests/test_tasks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+
+def test_ping(swh_app, celery_session_worker):
+    res = swh_app.send_task(
+        'swh.lister.pypi.tasks.ping')
+    assert res
+    res.wait()
+    assert res.successful()
+    assert res.result == 'OK'
+
+
+@patch('swh.lister.pypi.tasks.PyPILister')
+def test_lister(lister, swh_app, celery_session_worker):
+    # setup the mocked PypiLister
+    lister.return_value = lister
+    lister.run.return_value = None
+
+    res = swh_app.send_task(
+        'swh.lister.pypi.tasks.PyPIListerTask')
+    assert res
+    res.wait()
+    assert res.successful()
+
+    lister.assert_called_once_with()
+    lister.db_last_index.assert_not_called()
+    lister.run.assert_called_once_with()