September 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

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.

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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

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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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