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Common Crawl web corpus and indexes

The global web corpus has been collected regularly since 2008 and represents a sample rather than complete copies of sites. The checked collection catalog listed 129 crawl indexes from CC-MAIN-2008-2009 through CC-MAIN-2026-43; individual crawls can span hundreds of terabytes.

Open commoncrawl.org
Signal Scoredraft model
86
Access
No key · none for HTTPS data and indexes
20
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
6 source links checked
20
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage
13

// Terms and limits

Access
none for HTTPS data and indexes
Free tier
Free keyless HTTPS download and index access. The corpus is petabyte-scale, and broad CDX filtering should move to the downloadable or columnar index rather than the shared URL-index server.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
The Terms of Use grant a limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the service under its terms. Archived web pages may carry separate source-site terms and third-party rights, which users must respect.
Attribution
No attribution requirement recorded.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01commoncrawl.org/get-started
  2. 02commoncrawl.org/overview
  3. 03index.commoncrawl.org/
  4. 04index.commoncrawl.org/collinfo.json
  5. 05commoncrawl.org/faq
  6. 06commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use

// Good for

osinthistorical-dataalt-datanetwork-data

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "common-crawl"
    }
  }
}
Reply · selected fields
{
  "name": "Common Crawl web corpus and indexes",
  "slug": "common-crawl",
  "domain": "OSINT",
  "type": "Dataset",
  "badge": "Free",
  "auth": "none for HTTPS data and indexes",
  "rateLimits": "Not stated",
  "license": "Provider terms",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use",
  "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
  "evidenceUrls": [
    "https://commoncrawl.org/get-started",
    "https://commoncrawl.org/overview",
    "https://index.commoncrawl.org/",
    "https://index.commoncrawl.org/collinfo.json",
    "https://commoncrawl.org/faq",
    "https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    "osint",
    "historical-data",
    "alt-data",
    "network-data"
  ],
  "providerUrl": "https://commoncrawl.org/get-started"
}

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