Getting the Alexa top 1 million sites directly from the server, unzipping it, parsing the csv and getting each line as an array.

alexa.js

var request = require('request');
var unzip   = require('unzip');
var csv2    = require('csv2');

request.get('http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip')
    .pipe(unzip.Parse())
    .on('entry', function (entry) {
        entry.pipe(csv2()).on('data', console.log);
    })
;

Plop this into a terminal to get the aforementioned nodejs script working on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install nodejs node-request npm
npm install unzip
npm install csv2

chilts: i'm diggin' it. thank you for sharing this.

+🍺

May I ask?
Will it always give the latest data or is it the data from 2013, the time when you make this script?

@vionemc The hosted zip file is automatically updated daily by alexa.

Unfortunately the file no longer exists.

Alexa has stopped offering this file (top-1m.csv.zip), you can now get the alternative free from Statvoo:
https://statvoo.com/dl/top-1million-sites.csv.zip (Ref: https://statvoo.com/top/sites)

Interestingly, the download works again today. I contacted the Alexa support and they said that the service is discontinued. I added a follow up question on why the service is available again and for how long. Let's see what happens there. The page that originally referenced the file (https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/200461990-Can-I-get-a-list-of-top-sites-from-an-API-) does not link to the file anymore.

Reply from Alexa:

"The file is temporarily available again, yes. We'll post updates concerning the file to our FAQ and Twitter. We do not have any additional updates to share at this time."

So need to monitor e.g. this: https://twitter.com/Alexa_Support

The link http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip is working now. But I don't know whether the file is upto-date. Any ideas?

@ao Does the link https://statvoo.com/dl/top-1million-sites.csv.zip from statvoo upto-date? (Or) Is it just a copy from Alaxa csv?

Is there a smaller CSV anywhere? Maybe top 50,000 or top 100,000 sites?

CSV file is working again! Nice!
The data is not exactly up to date. I would say about 2 months. I have a site in the current the 67,000 positions today, and is in the lists 78,000s.

OpenDNS has published a new top 1 million list here: http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html While the list is not composed in the same way we hope that it will be useful to some. Read up on the details here: https://blog.opendns.com/2016/12/14/cisco-umbrella-1-million/

Can confirm http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip still available

Thanks for this!

@karan1149 head -10000 top-1million-sites.csv will display top 10,000. it will be faster than iterating through all the list.
To find a specific domain cat top-1million-sites.csv | grep github.com.

@xdanx is that file still updated daily or is it from a specific date?

the zip file has a timestamp of 5/7/2017 today, so it is at least generated each day.

I need to generate a long list of URL-like names (>10million). Any idea?

@doctorhy it's definitely not a place to ask it, go to stackoverflow.com and ask there. Not sure why not to google around how to generate a random string using a language of your choice in a first place.

why do people need those domains ?

It is definitely outdated. I have a site in the top million and it is not in the list. I would agree that the file is a few months old, 2-3 perhaps.