web-archive
PADICAT (Catalonia)
Catalonia's national web archive, combining curated selections with crawls of the .cat domain. Everything happens through its own web portal, no confirmed API, so you search and view captures on padicat.cat. The go-to source for the history of Catalan websites, though the site can be slow to respond.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
PADICAT is the definitive archive for the Catalan web, covering both the .cat domain and curated selections of culturally significant Catalan websites since 2005. It captures the .cat domain at least once a year and runs intensive, event-driven crawls around elections, cultural events, and major news stories. You can search by URL, browse alphabetically, or search by keyword through the portal at padicat.cat. Note that the site can be slow to respond; expect several seconds when loading results.
What’s inside
Around 44,000 websites with nearly 300 million archived files, built up since 2005 across regular domain crawls and targeted event captures. The archive has cooperation agreements with more than 450 Catalan institutions.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 2.4 s
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 3.6 s
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.