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September 29, 2017

September 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

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The crawl archive for September 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.01 billion web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.
Sebastian Nagel
Sebastian Nagel
Sebastian is a Distinguished Engineer with Common Crawl.

The crawl archive for September 2017 is now available! The archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/. It contains 3.01 billion web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

Data Type File List #Files Total Size
Compressed (TiB)
Segments segment.paths.gz 100
WARC warc.paths.gz 72000 59.13
WAT wat.paths.gz 72000 20.10
WET wet.paths.gz 72000 8.86
Robots.txt files robotstxt.paths.gz 72000 0.16
Non-200 responses non200responses.paths.gz 72000 2.07
URL index files cc-index.paths.gz 302 0.23
Columnar URL index files cc-index-table.paths.gz 900 0.27

To improve coverage and freshness we added one billion new URLs (not contained in any crawl archive before):

  • 300 million URLs are a random sample extracted from sitemaps if provided by any of the top 60 million hosts taken from the May/June/July 2017 webgraph data set
  • 500 million URLs were found by a side crawl within a maximum of 3 links (“hops”) away from the home pages of the top 60 million hosts and from a list of university domains collected by a Common Crawl user
  • 200 million URLs are randomly chosen from WAT files of the August crawl

To assist with exploring and using the dataset, we provide gzipped files which list all segments, WARC, WAT and WET files. By simply adding either s3://commoncrawl/ or https://data.commoncrawl.org/ to each line, you end up with the S3 and HTTP paths respectively.

The Common Crawl URL Index for this crawl is available at: https://index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-2017-39/. For more information on working with the URL index, please refer to the previous blog post or the Index Server API. There is also a command-line tool client for common use cases of the URL index.

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Erratum: 

Erroneous title field in WAT records

Originally reported by: 
Robert Waksmunski
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The "Title" extracted in WAT records to the JSON path `Envelope > Payload-Metadata > HTTP-Response-Metadata > HTML-Metadata > Head > Title` is not the content included in the <title> element in the HTML header (<head> element) if the page contains further <title> elements in the page body. The content of the last <title> element is written to the WAT "Title". This bug was observed if the HTML page includes embedded SVG graphics.

The issue was reported by the user Robert Waksmunski:

...and was fixed for CC-MAIN-2024-42 by commoncrawl/ia-web-commons#37.

This erratum affects all crawls from CC-MAIN-2013-20 until CC-MAIN-2024-38.

Erratum: 

Missing Language Classification

Originally reported by: 
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Starting with crawl CC-MAIN-2018-39 we added a language classification field (‘content-languages’) to the columnar indexes, WAT files, and WARC metadata for all subsequent crawls. The CLD2 classifier was used, and includes up to three languages per document. We use the ISO-639-3 (three-character) language codes.