Common Crawl

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Common Crawl's public web archive — find every time a URL was crawled since 2008 and read the exact page bytes that were captured.

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Tools

commoncrawl_crawls

List the Common Crawl monthly crawl collections (crawl ids like "CC-MAIN-2026-34") with the date range each one covers. AUTHORITATIVE for "which Common Crawl snapshot covers <date>" — call this first

No parameters required.

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commoncrawl_fetch_record

Read one archived page back out of Common Crawl by byte range — pass the filename, offset and length from a commoncrawl_index_search result and get the WARC headers, the captured HTTP response headers

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/commoncrawl/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/commoncrawl/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"commoncrawl_crawls","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("commoncrawl_crawls", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("common crawl's public web archive — find every time a url was crawled since 2008 and read the exact page bytes that were captured");