Looking for Guidance on Accessing Common Crawl 2008–2009 Data
Hello everyone,
I’m working on a research project that requires access to historical web archives, specifically the 2008–2009 Common Crawl dataset. While exploring various data-sharing platforms, I’ve seen several large-scale web-related datasets but haven’t been able to confirm whether any of them include the original Common Crawl ARC files from 2008–2009.
I’d greatly appreciate any advice or insights on the following:
Do any existing datasets include the 2008–2009 Common Crawl web archives?
If so, what’s the recommended way to identify and extract this specific time range from those larger datasets? Alternatively, is there a direct source for obtaining the complete 2008–2009 Common Crawl dataset?
Are there metadata files, index manifests, or filtering tools available that could help isolate this subset efficiently?
Any guidance or shared experience would be extremely helpful for my research.
Thanks in advance for your help!