The crawl archive for November/December 2021 is now available! The data was crawled Nov 26 – Dec 9 and contains 2.5 billion web pages or 280 TiB of uncompressed content. It includes page captures of 1.2 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.
Improvements
The column url_host_name_reversed was added to the columnar index. It holds the host name in reverse domain name notation (com.example.www) which is more efficient to query. In order to make use of the new column please use the updated table schema. On Amazon Athena you need to recreate table by running the latest table creation statement. Further details are found in the corresponding pull request.
The columnar index is now built using Spark version 3.2.0 and Parquet MR 1.12.1 – these upgrades allow us to go for further improvements next year. Let us know if you observe any incompatibilities using this index to query data from the Nov/Dec 2021 crawl. The crawler is now based on Tika 2.1.0 for detection of MIME/content types and character sets used to encode HTML documents.
Archive Location and Download
The November/December crawl archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/.
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-2021-49/. Also the columnar index has been updated to contain this Crawl. Please donate to Common Crawl if you appreciate our free datasets! We’re also seeking corporate sponsors to partner with Common Crawl for our non-profit work in open data. Please contact info@commoncrawl.org for sponsorship information.
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:
WARC revisit metadata records
The revisit records in the Common Crawl WARC archives in all crawls from CC-MAIN-2018-34 to CC-MAIN-2024-46 (since Aug 2018) lack the metadata record which is attached to all response records. Fixed with CC-MAIN-2024-51, see commoncrawl/nutch#33. Note: before CC-MAIN-2018-34, WARC revisit records were not stored at all.
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.
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