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March 10, 2017

February 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

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The crawl archive for February 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.08 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 February 2017 is now available! The archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/. It contains 3.08 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 65200 55.88
WAT wat.paths.gz 65200 20.67
WET wet.paths.gz 65200 9.14
Robots.txt files robotstxt.paths.gz 65200 0.13
Non-200 responses non200responses.paths.gz 65200 1.98
URL index files cc-index.paths.gz 302 0.24
Columnar URL index files cc-index-table.paths.gz 900 0.28

To extend the coverage of the crawl we

  • continued to use sitemaps to find fresh URLs for known hosts;
  • added 250 million URLs within a maximum of 2 links (“hops”) away from the home pages of the top 5 million hosts. We also ranked these hosts by Harmonic Centrality calculated on Common Search's host-level webgraph using HyperBall;
  • again, used verified, DNS-resolvable domain names of European country-code TLDs (.eu, .fr, .be, .de, .ch, .nl, .pl, .ru, .dk), thanks to the continued donation of seed data from webxtrakt;
  • included 3 million URLs from dmoz.org (formerly, the Open Directory Project).

The link extraction for WAT generation has been improved to include links to embedded content. See issues 7 and 9 on GitHub for further information.

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-2017-09/. 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.