Data Dumps (since 2008)

The self-serve Archive (Wizard and API) covers the last 5 years. For older data, Webz.io provides bulk data dumps - news back to 2008, blogs and discussions back to December 2014.

What they are

• Format: ZIP files containing JSON documents, organized by month.
• Storage: held in AWS Glacier cold storage.

Coverage

Data type	Dumps available from
News	2008
Blogs	December 2014
Discussions (forums)	December 2014

How they differ from self-serve Archive

	Self-serve Archive	Data dumps
Coverage	Last 5 years	News since 2008; blogs & discussions since December 2014
Access	Query in the Wizard or API	Bulk, by request
Filtering	Filtered by your query	Whole months, unfiltered
Delivery	NDJSON ZIP, minutes to hours	ZIP of JSON from AWS Glacier

Data quality in older data

Older data is less complete than recent data:

• There is a significant drop in data collected prior to 2015.
• Some enrichment fields (entities, sentiment, social signals) only appear in data from around 2015-2016 onward.

How to get them

Because the data lives in AWS Glacier, dumps are provided on request rather than instantly. Contact [email protected] to request historical data dumps for the period you need.