Common Crawl Index Server
This project is a deployment of the pywb web archive replay and index server to provide an index query mechanism for datasets provided by CommonCrawl
Usage & Installation
To run locally, please install with pip install -r requirements.txt
CommonCrawl stores data on Amazon S3 and the index is publicly accessible from S3.
Currently, individual indexes for each crawl can be accessed under: s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/cc-index/collections/[CC-MAIN-YYYY-WW]
Most of the index will be served from S3, however, a smaller secondary index must be installed locally for each collection.
This can be done automatically by running: install-collections.sh which will install all available collections locally.
This script will use s3cmd tool to sync the the index.
If successful, there should be collections directory with at least one index.
To run, simply run cdx-server to start up the index server, or optionally wayback, to run pywb replay system along with the cdx server.
CDX Server API
The API endpoints correspond to existing index collections in collections directory.
For example, one currently available index is CC-MAIN-2015-06 and it can be accessed via
http://localhost:8080/CC-MAIN-2015-06-index?url=commoncrawl.org
Refer to CDX Server API for more detailed instructions on the API itself.
The pywb README provides additional information about pywb.
Building the Index
Please see the webarchive-indexing repository for more info on how the index is built.