The crawl archive for June 2018 is now available! The archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/. It contains 3.05 billion web pages and 235 TiB of uncompressed content, crawled between June 18th and 25th.
The June crawl contains 700 million new URLs, not contained in any crawl archive before. New URLs are “mined” by
- extracting and sampling URLs from sitemaps, RSS and Atom feeds if provided by hosts visited in prior crawls. Hosts are selected from the highest-ranking 60 million domains of the Feb/Mar/Apr 2018 webgraph data set
- a breadth-first side crawl within a maximum of 4 links (“hops”) away from the home pages of the top 25 million hosts or top 25 million domains of the webgraph dataset
- a random sample taken from WAT files of the May crawl
The remaining URLs (more than 2 billion) have already been included in one of the previous monthly crawl archives and have been stored in our URL database for a later re-fetch – if not marked as duplicates, classified as spam, etc. This huge "collection of bookmarks" dates back multiple years, even back to 2012 when we first received seed donations from Blekko. This month we started to remove old "bookmarks" from our URL database. In the future we'll remember a URL for only 12 months after seen last as a seed or outlink. On the one hand, we hope to increase the dynamic of the crawls, on the other hand a smaller URL database will save resources.
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-2018-26/. Also the columnar index has been updated to contain this crawl.
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Erratum:
WAT data: repeated WARC and HTTP headers are not preserved
Repeated HTTP and WARC headers were not represented in the JSON data in WAT files. When a header was repeated adding a further value of that header, only the last value was stored and other values were lost. This issues was fixed with CC-MAIN-2024-51, see ia-web-commons#18. All WAT files from CC-MAIN-2013-20 until CC-MAIN-2024-46 are affected.
Erratum:
Erroneous title field in WAT records
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:
- https://groups.google.com/g/common-crawl/c/ZrPFdY3pPA4/m/s5D_8wCJAAAJ
- WAT extractor: Document title bug ia-web-commons#36
...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
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.
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