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Answers to Recent Community Questions

Answers to Recent Community Questions

In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming!
Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

A little under four years ago, Gil Elbaz formed the Common Crawl Foundation. He was driven by a desire to ensure a truly open web. He knew that decreasing storage and bandwidth costs, along with the increasing ease of crunching big data, made building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data feasible.
Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Hear Common Crawl founder discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation as well as give ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data.

Common Crawl Blog

December 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

December 22, 2017

The crawl archive for December 2017 is now available! The archive contains 2.9 billion web pages and over 240 TiB of uncompressed content.

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November 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

November 29, 2017

The crawl archive for November 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.2 billion web pages and 260 TiB of uncompressed content.

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Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs Aug/Sept/Oct 2017

November 27, 2017

We are pleased to announce a new release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the published crawls of August, September, and October 2017. These graphs, along with ranked lists of hosts and domains, follow the first (February, March, April 2017) and second (May, June, July 2017) web graph releases.

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October 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

October 29, 2017

The crawl archive for October 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.65 billion web pages and over 300 TiB of uncompressed content.

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September 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

September 29, 2017

The crawl archive for September 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.01 billion web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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August 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

August 28, 2017

The crawl archive for August 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.28 billion+ web pages and over 280 TiB of uncompressed content.

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Now Available: Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs

August 18, 2017

We are pleased to announce the release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the published crawls of May, June, and July 2017. These graphs, along with ranked lists of hosts and domains, follow on our first host-level web graph (February, March, April 2017).

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July 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

July 31, 2017

The crawl archive for July 2017 is now available! The archive contains 2.89 billion+ web pages and over 240 TiB of uncompressed content.

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June 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

July 4, 2017

The crawl archive for June 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.16 billion+ web pages and over 260 TiB of uncompressed content.

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May 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

June 5, 2017

The crawl archive for May 2017 is now available! The archive contains 2.96 billion+ web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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Common Crawl's First In-House Web Graph

May 22, 2017

We are pleased to announce the release of a host-level web graph of recent monthly crawls (February, March, April 2017). The graph consists of 385 million nodes and 2.5 billion edges.

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April 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

May 9, 2017

The crawl archive for April 2017 is now available! The archive contains 2.94 billion+ web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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March 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

April 4, 2017

The crawl archive for March 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.07 billion+ web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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February 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

March 10, 2017

The crawl archive for February 2017 is now available! The archive contains 3.08 billion+ web pages and over 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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January 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

February 1, 2017

The crawl archive for January 2017 is now available! The archive contains more than 3.14 billion web pages and about 250 TiB of uncompressed content.

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December 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

December 16, 2016

The crawl archive for December 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 2.85 billion web pages.

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October 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

November 7, 2016

The crawl archive for October 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 3.25 billion web pages.

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September 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

October 7, 2016

The crawl archive for September 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 1.72 billion web pages.

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News Dataset Available

October 4, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of a new dataset containing news articles from news sites all over the world.

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Data Sets Containing Robots.txt Files and Non-200 Responses

September 16, 2016

Together with the crawl archive for August 2016 we release two data sets containing robots.txt files and server responses with HTTP status code other than 200 (404s, redirects, etc.) The data may be useful to anyone interested in web science, with various applications in the field.

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August 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

September 16, 2016

The crawl archive for August 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 1.61 billion web pages.

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July 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

August 9, 2016

The crawl archive for July 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 1.73 billion web pages.

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June 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

July 14, 2016

The crawl archive for June 2016 is now available! The archive contains more than 1.23 billion web pages.

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May 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

June 19, 2016

The crawl archive for May 2016 is now available! More than 1.46 billion web pages are in the archive.

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April 2016 Crawl Archive Now Available

May 24, 2016

The crawl archive for April 2016 is now available! More than 1.33 billion webpages are in the archive.

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