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October 12, 2023

September/October 2023 crawl archive now available

Note: this post has been marked as obsolete.
The crawl archive for September/October 2023 is now available! The data was crawled Sept 21 – October 5 and contains 3.4 billion web pages or 456 TiB of uncompressed content.
Julien Nioche
Julien Nioche
Julien is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, Emeritus member of the Common Crawl Foundation, and is the creator of StormCrawler.

The crawl archive for September/October 2023 is now available! The data was crawled Sept 21 – October 5 and contains 3.4 billion web pages or 456 TiB of uncompressed content. Page captures are from 43 million hosts or 34 million registered domains and include 1.2 billion new URLs, not visited in any of our prior crawls.

Data Type File List #Files Total Size
Compressed (TiB)
Segments segment.paths.gz 100
WARC warc.paths.gz 90000 98.38
WAT wat.paths.gz 90000 22.99
WET wet.paths.gz 90000 9.30
Robots.txt files robotstxt.paths.gz 90000 0.15
Non-200 responses non200responses.paths.gz 90000 3.18
URL index files cc-index.paths.gz 302 0.25
Columnar URL index files cc-index-table.paths.gz 900 0.29

Archive Location and Download

The September/October crawl archive is located in the commoncrawl bucket at crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/.

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 Accessing the Data for detailed instructions.

This release was authored by:
Julien is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, Emeritus member of the Common Crawl Foundation, and is the creator of StormCrawler.
Julien Nioche
Sebastian is a Distinguished Engineer with Common Crawl.
Sebastian Nagel

Erratum: 

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.

Erratum: 

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.

The excluded CCTLDs were:

co.uk  org.uk  co.za   com.br  com.au  co.jp   com.pl  co.pt
co.th  com.tw  com.mx  co.nz   com.ua  com.de  co.il   com.tr
co.ua  cn.com  in.net  in.th   my.id   net.ua  or.kr

We apologize for this mistake, and that it took us a while to find it.