Errata

Here you can find comprehensive information about errata that affect our data releases, including crawl data, and web graphs. If you have any problems to report please Contact Us.

Charset Detection Bug in WET Records

Originally reported by 
Javier de la Rosa
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The charset detection required to properly transform non-UTF-8 HTML pages in WARC files into WET records didn't work before November 2016 (CC-MAIN-2016-50) due to a bug in IIPC Web Archive Commons.

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ARC Format (Legacy) Crawls

Originally reported by 
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Our early crawls were archived using the ARC (Archive) format, not the WARC (Web ARChive) format.

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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.

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Some 2–Level CCTLDs Excluded

Originally reported by 
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A bad configuration was checked into our exclusion list on Sep 22, 2022 and was fixed on Oct 27, 2023. The configuration blocked a number of 2–level domains, meaning they were not included in certain crawls.

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