The crawl archive for May 2026 is now available.
The data was crawled between May 8th and May 21st, and contains 2.16 billion web pages (or 365.56 TiB of uncompressed content). Page captures are from 41.4 million hosts or 33.9 million registered domains and include 668 million new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.
Archive Location & Download
The May 2026 crawl archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2026-21/.
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, please see Get Started for detailed instructions.
This release was authored by:
Michael Paris
Michael is a Senior Research Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation.
Hande Çelikkanat
Hande is a Senior ML Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation.
Thom Vaughan
Thom is Principal Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation.
Erratum:
Content is truncated
Originally reported by:
Some archived content is truncated due to fetch size limits imposed during crawling. This is necessary to handle infinite or exceptionally large data streams (e.g., radio streams). Prior to March 2025 (CC-MAIN-2025-13), the truncation threshold was 1 MiB. From the March 2025 crawl onwards, this limit has been increased to 5 MiB.
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