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The comments are not showing up for me now, but when they were still showing for anonymous users, there was a link to https://commoncrawl.org. I've been sort of worried about letting agents hit websites, I wonder if a fetch_url agent tool could be made to look in common crawl first before hitting the web for it?


just their smallest dataset looks to be 6 TB _compressed_. not a thing you can really ship as part of the agent. but if somebody made a fetch_url tool that sharded that across all users of it, i'd give it a try. could probably just layer that on top of bittorrent or IPFS or something.


It’s not that hard. I’ve done this. The list of URLs for a crawl is several hundred gigs. Easily fits in a lookup index on a single instance.


If you scrape 6TB from across the web or grab it from one place, it's still 6TB




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