October 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

The crawl archive for October 2017 is now available! The archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/. It contains 3.65 billion web pages and over 300 TiB of uncompressed content.

To improve coverage and freshness we added over 900 million new URLs (not contained in any crawl archive before):

350 million URLs are a random sample extracted from sitemaps if provided by any of the top 80 million hosts taken from the May/June/July 2017 webgraph data set
250 million URLs were found by a side crawl within a maximum of 3 links (“hops”) away from the home pages of the top 80 million hosts
150 million URLs are randomly chosen from WAT files of the September crawl
180 million URLs are links donated by mixnode.com

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.

	File List	#Files	Total Size Compressed (TiB)
Segments	CC-MAIN-2017-43/segment.paths.gz	100
WARC files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/warc.paths.gz	89100	84.9
WAT files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/wat.paths.gz	89100	24.33
WET files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/wet.paths.gz	89100	10.58
Robots.txt files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/robotstxt.paths.gz	89100	0.17
Non-200 responses files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/non200responses.paths.gz	89100	2.62
URL index files	CC-MAIN-2017-43/cc-index.paths.gz	302	0.28

The Common Crawl URL Index for this crawl is available at: https://index.commoncrawl.org/CC-MAIN-2017-43/. 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.

We are grateful to our friends at mixnode for donating a seed list of 200+ Million URLs to enhance the Common Crawl.

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