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March 31, 2015

February 2015 Crawl Archive Available

Note: this post has been marked as obsolete.
The crawl archive for February 2015 is now available! This crawl archive is over 145TB in size and over 1.9 billion webpages.
Stephen Merity
Stephen Merity
Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

The crawl archive for February 2015 is now available! This crawl archive is over 145TB in size and over 1.9 billion webpages. The files are located in the commoncrawl bucket at /crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/.

Data Type File List #Files Total Size
Compressed (TiB)
Segments segment.paths.gz 100
WARC warc.paths.gz 33002 28.12
WAT wat.paths.gz 33002 9.14
WET wet.paths.gz 33001 3.26
URL index files cc-index.paths.gz 302 0.11
Columnar URL index files cc-index-table.paths.gz 300 0.12

To assist with exploring and using the dataset, we’ve provided gzipped files that list:

By simply adding either s3://commoncrawl/ or https://data.commoncrawl.org/ to each line, you end up with the S3 and HTTP paths respectively.

We're also happy to introduce the new Common Crawl Index by Ilya Kreymer, creator of https://webrecorder.io/. The February 2015 and January 2015 indexes are already featured and the aim will be for indexes to be released alongside crawl archives, offering a new way to explore the dataset. Whilst full details will be released in an upcoming blog post, we're telling you about it now as we're interested in hearing feedback from the community!

Please donate to Common Crawl if you appreciate our free datasets! We're seeking corporate sponsors to partner with Common Crawl for our non-profit work in big open data! Contact info@commoncrawl.org for sponsorship information and packages.

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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.

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Missing fetch_status fields

Originally reported by: 
"NL" via Discord
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In our columnar index for this crawl, the `content_mime_type` is missing and `fetch_status` is always -1. In the cdx index (columnar: `content_mime_type`), fields `mime` and `status` are missing.

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Charset Detection Bug in WET Records

Originally reported by: 
Javier de la Rosa
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The charset detection required to properly transform non-UTF-8 HTML pages in WARC files into WET records didn't work before November 2016 due to a bug in IIPC Web Archive Commons (see the related issue in the CC fork of Apache Nutch).  There should be significantly fewer errors in all subsequent crawls. Originally discussed here in Google Groups.

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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.