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- Bright Shield
FAQ: Web Archive API
Find answers to common questions about Web Archive API.
Web Archive API is a massive, continuously expanding, cached repository by Bright Data, designed to capture and deliver public web data at scale.
It provides full web pages and metadata, making it ideal for AI training, machine learning, and large-scale data analysis.
Unlike traditional web crawls, Web Archive API prioritizes relevance, freshness, and usability, giving you access to the most important parts of the internet as they are scraped daily.
Bright Data’s Web Archive API has already collected 17.5 PB of data, covering 28 billion unique URLs from 40 million domains, in the first 8 months of it’s launch alone.
We continue to add ~1 PB of new data every week, alongside ~2 unique billion URLs, making Web Archive the largest, up-to-date, web data repository available - perfect for AI and data-driven applications.
You can start accessing data immediately through our Web Archive API. The API allows you to search, retrieve, and filter data snapshots from Web Archive seamlessly and efficiently.
- Data from the last 3 days: Will take from within minutes and up to a few hours to deliver (depending on snapshot size)
- Data older than 3 days: Will take from a few hours and up to 3 days to process and deliver (depending on snapshot size)
Web Archive offers two delivery options to ensure seamless integration into your existing workflows:
- Amazon S3 bucket: Have your Data Snapshot delivered directly to your S3 bucket.
- Webhook: Retrieved via webhook for real-time integration into your systems.
Absolutely! Web Archive API allows filtering by category, domains, date, languages, and country before retrieving data, ensuring you only get what you need.
When working with large-scale web data, freshness, relevance, and accessibility are key. While Common Crawl provides a broad historical snapshot of the web, Bright Data’s Web Archive API offers real-time, continuously updated data with advanced filtering and delivery options. Here’s how they compare:
| Feature | Bright Data’s Web Archive | Common Crawl |
|---|---|---|
| Data Collection | Continuously captures public web data in real time, providing results as recent as “now.” | Periodic web crawling (not real-time), updated monthly or bimonthly. Data can be outdated |
| Data Volume | 17.5 PB collected in 8 months, covering 118 billion pages (28 billion unique URLs from 40 million domains). Adds ~1 PB and 2 billion unique URLs/week. | 250b pages collected over 18 years. |
| Website Coverage & Relevance | Focuses on high-value, relevant website data based on real scraping business needs. | Crawls indiscriminately, including outdated or low-quality pages. |
| Data Types | Full web pages (JS-rendered) | 98.6% HTML and text |
| Filtering & Delivery | Full discovery and delivery platform- filtering by category, domain, language, date etc. Delivered via Amazon S3 or webhook. | No built-in filtering or delivery. Need to manually process huge raw WARC files. |
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