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Common Crawl

Common Crawl is a data services organization based in Beverly Hills, California26. This catalog lists 1 dataset from Common Crawl, under licenses including the Common Crawl Terms of Use (limited, non-exclusive license).

Documented roles: Data services

Common Crawl is a nonprofit that crawls the web and makes its archives and derived datasets freely available. It has collected crawl data since 2008 and hosts it on Amazon Web Services through an AWS open data sponsorship program.13

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Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Legal name
The Common Crawl Foundation (listed by the IRS as Commoncrawl Foundation)26
Ownership (separate from openness)
Nonprofit

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
Corporation recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3); the IRS extract classifies it as a private operating foundation.67
Headquarters
Beverly Hills, California (address given in the Terms of Use and the IRS listing)26
Founded
20071
Sectors
Data

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Publishes its crawl archives (WARC, WAT, and WET files) and indexes for download over HTTPS without an AWS account. Use is governed by Common Crawl's Terms of Use rather than a named open data license, and the crawled content remains subject to the rights of its original publishers.32

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No product records yet.

Cataloged artifacts

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Datasets (1)

Notable documented facts

  • Common Crawl's crawler, CCBot, checks robots.txt before fetching pages and honors the Crawl-delay parameter and nofollow attributes; site owners can block it through robots.txt, and Common Crawl also refers site owners to an opt-out registry.45
  • The Terms of Use (last updated March 7, 2024) require users to indemnify Common Crawl against third-party claims arising from their use of the service or crawled content, expressly including use in connection with artificial intelligence and machine learning systems such as large language models.2

In the news

Dated, sourced updates in this catalog's news that mention this entry.
  1. · Release

    Common Crawl releases experimental web graph embeddings for web hosts

    On September 7, 2026, Common Crawl published an experimental dataset of 128-dimensional embeddings for web hosts, learned from hyperlinks alone in its host-level web graph for the November 2025, December 2025, and January 2026 crawls. The model uses no page text, metadata, or hostnames and was trained only on hosts with at least eight links. The data is published as Parquet files on Common Crawl's S3 bucket and on Hugging Face, where the dataset card says its use is subject to the Common Crawl Terms of Use; the source code is on GitHub. Common Crawl says it is yet to be seen whether it will publish graph embeddings on a regular basis.

What this catalog does not know

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  • Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
  • Products: none documented in this record.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

Common Crawl describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Its Terms of Use name The Common Crawl Foundation with a Beverly Hills, California address, and the IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists Commoncrawl Foundation at the same address as a 501(c)(3) organization.126

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

  1. 1.
    About Common Crawl (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    Terms of Use | Common Crawl (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Official page · published Mar 7, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
    Get Started | Common Crawl (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  4. 4.
    CCBot | Common Crawl (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    FAQ | Common Crawl (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
  7. 7.
    Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract (EO BMF) (external site: irs.gov)

    Internal Revenue Service · Documentation · published Jan 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  8. 8.
    Official jobs page (external site: commoncrawl.org)

    Common Crawl Foundation · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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@misc{usasi_common_crawl,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Common Crawl},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/common-crawl/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
}

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