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July 8, 2015

May 2015 Crawl Archive Available

Note: this post has been marked as obsolete.
The crawl archive for May 2015 is now available! This crawl archive is over 159TB in size and holds more than 2.05 billion webpages.
Stephen Merity
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The crawl archive for May 2015 is now available! This crawl archive is over 159TB in size and holds more than 2.05 billion webpages. The files are located in the commoncrawl bucket at /crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/.

Data Type File List #Files Total Size
Compressed (TiB)
Segments segment.paths.gz 124
WARC warc.paths.gz 37188 31.58
WAT wat.paths.gz 37188 10.09
WET wet.paths.gz 37188 3.58
URL index files cc-index.paths.gz 302 0.12
Columnar URL index files cc-index-table.paths.gz 300 0.13

To assist with exploring and using the dataset, we’ve provided gzipped files that list:

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 release also includes the May 2015 Common Crawl Index, constructed by Ilya Kreymer, creator of https://webrecorder.io/. The Common Crawl Index offers a fascinating and new way to explore the dataset! For full details, refer to Ilya's guest blog post.

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 big open data! Contact info@commoncrawl.org for sponsorship information and packages.

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Erratum: 

WAT data: repeated WARC and HTTP headers are not preserved

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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.

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Erroneous title field in WAT records

Originally reported by: 
Robert Waksmunski
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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:

...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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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 due to a bug in IIPC Web Archive Commons (see the related issue in the CC fork of Apache Nutch).  There should be significantly fewer errors in all subsequent crawls. Originally discussed here in Google Groups.

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Missing Language Classification

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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. The CLD2 classifier was used, and includes up to three languages per document. We use the ISO-639-3 (three-character) language codes.