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1. Shard Calculation

Query:

Response:

Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa066)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

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for secret access to world's communications\nDebate\ndouble quotation mark\nObama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible\nAlan Rusbridger\ndouble quotation mark\nState surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect?\nTom Stoppard\ndouble quotation mark\nThe primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority\nJeff Jarvis\nThe Guardian view on the freedom of information commission: a very British farce\nLatest\nThe Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong\nPutin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden\nUS entitled to $5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules\nNSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on\nMost viewed\nMost viewed\nin US news\nMost viewed\nAcross the guardian\nMost viewed in US news\n‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists\n#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’\nForget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran\nTrump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California\n‘Unconstrained’ Trump seems to be on a quest to name most everything after himself\n‘The good old days are gone’: how will US prices stand as war in Iran surges on?\nRecord high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave\nNew Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm\nEvacuations ordered as two wildfires break out in southern California\n‘It broke our home’: family demands answers after death of man abandoned by US border agents\nMost viewed Across the guardian\nLive\nMiddle East crisis live: US and Iran race to find missing pilot; Trump warns Tehran over strait of Hormuz\nLive\nThe Boat Races 2026: Cambridge men cruise to victory, Oxford women end losing streak\nManchester City 4-0 Liverpool: FA Cup quarter-final – as it happened\nDeath, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war\n‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world\nOats, sardines and crisps: emergency foods to stockpile – and why you should share them\nUnions privately voice misgivings over BMA pay demands and doctors’ strikes\ndouble quotation mark\nAs Team Trump wage unceasing war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying any moral world order we once had\n#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’\n‘Not quite Greggs’: TikTok creators put London’s ‘gentrified’ bakeries to the test","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/the-nsa-files#maincontent)[Skip to 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![](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4d89ac2e3def1897b6f2e82665c0a392e84f7ada\/447_243_4206_2524\/1000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### NSA files decodedEdward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained\n\n- [All stories](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/the-nsa-files\/all)\n\n## Exclusives\nHide\n\n- ![Phone records data](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/audio\/video\/2013\/6\/5\/1370461050798\/Phone-records-data-010.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily\n  Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration\n  \n  [2,504 2504 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/06\/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order#comments)\n\n- ![Computer screen data](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2013\/4\/3\/1365009243195\/Computer-screen-data-008.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### RevealedHow US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security\n  [4,121 4121 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/sep\/05\/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security#comments)\n- ![Documents show GCHQ has had access to the NSA's Prism programme since at least June 2010](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/6\/7\/1370610656177\/Documents-show-GCHQ-has-h-010.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation\n\n- ![GCHQ composite](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/6\/16\/1371408775664\/GCHQ-composite-002.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits\n  [2,458 2458 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2013\/jun\/16\/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits#comments)\n- ![Access to the future 3](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2013\/6\/21\/1371830464333\/Access-to-the-future-3-010.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications\n  [3,375 3375 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2013\/jun\/21\/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa#comments)\n\n## Debate\nHide\n\n- ![Alan Rusbridger](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/uploads\/2023\/06\/06\/Alan_Rusbridger.png?width=80&dpr=1&s=none&crop=1%3A1)\n  \n  ### Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible\n  Alan Rusbridger\n  \n  [378 378 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/dec\/19\/obama-nsa-review-britain-debate-possible#comments)\n- ![British playwright Tom Stoppard](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pixies\/2013\/12\/10\/1386633767734\/British-playwright-Tom-St-008.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect?\n  Tom Stoppard\n  \n  [240 240 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/10\/state-surveillance-data-tom-stoppard#comments)\n- ![ Google Data Center in Council Bluffs](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2012\/12\/17\/1355742828859\/-Google-Data-Center-in-Co-008.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### The primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority\n  Jeff Jarvis\n  \n  [159 159 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/dec\/30\/nsa-surveillance-debate-how-government-uses-data#comments)\n- ![Chair Lord Burns, Jack Straw, Lord Carlile, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Lord Howard](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/21ff2d762cbddebfe92d667ebac6d18561e37e80\/0_0_2560_1535\/master\/2560.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### The Guardian view on the freedom of information commission: a very British farce\n  [105 105 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/oct\/11\/the-guardian-view-on-the-freedom-of-information-commission-a-very-british-farce#comments)\n\n## Latest\nHide\n\n- ![FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \\_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo\/Vincent Yu, File )](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c16675184a877d991254c704afd2347790117944\/0_327_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong\n- ![Edward Snowden](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513\/249_0_3598_2160\/master\/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden\n- ![Edward Snowden at the 2019 Web Summit in Lisbon in November. US authorities did not seek to block publication of Snowden’s book but rather to seize all proceeds.](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ee503bc4bbe8fc0b6f53ce62897e1b07ed4f4913\/0_21_6562_3938\/master\/6562.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### US entitled to \\$5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules\n- ![Snowden at a videoconference in Estoril in May 2017. Snowden wrote on Twitter: ‘I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful.’](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b9955389842cd2d35ab4c74404c93744e75e57b5\/8_0_3480_2089\/master\/3480.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on\n\n## Most viewed\nHide\n\n- [Most viewed in US news](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tabs-popular-0)\n- [Most viewed Across the guardian](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tabs-popular-1)\n\n### Most viewed in US news\n1. [‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/01\/snowmelt-american-west)\n2. [\\#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/military-tiktok-iran-war-trump-hegseth)\n3. 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Boilerpipe Text	NSA files decoded Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained All stories Exclusives NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration Revealed How US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications Debate double quotation mark Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible Alan Rusbridger double quotation mark State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect? Tom Stoppard double quotation mark The primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority Jeff Jarvis The Guardian view on the freedom of information commission: a very British farce Latest The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden US entitled to $5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on Most viewed Most viewed in US news Most viewed Across the guardian Most viewed in US news ‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists #MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’ Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California ‘Unconstrained’ Trump seems to be on a quest to name most everything after himself ‘The good old days are gone’: how will US prices stand as war in Iran surges on? Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave New Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm Evacuations ordered as two wildfires break out in southern California ‘It broke our home’: family demands answers after death of man abandoned by US border agents Most viewed Across the guardian Live Middle East crisis live: US and Iran race to find missing pilot; Trump warns Tehran over strait of Hormuz Live The Boat Races 2026: Cambridge men cruise to victory, Oxford women end losing streak Manchester City 4-0 Liverpool: FA Cup quarter-final – as it happened Death, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war ‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world Oats, sardines and crisps: emergency foods to stockpile – and why you should share them Unions privately voice misgivings over BMA pay demands and doctors’ strikes double quotation mark As Team Trump wage unceasing war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying any moral world order we once had #MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’ ‘Not quite Greggs’: TikTok creators put London’s ‘gentrified’ bakeries to the test
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Readable Markdown	- ![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d89ac2e3def1897b6f2e82665c0a392e84f7ada/447_243_4206_2524/1000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### NSA files decodedEdward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained - [All stories](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files/all) Exclusives - ![Phone records data](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/6/5/1370461050798/Phone-records-data-010.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration - ![Computer screen data](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/4/3/1365009243195/Computer-screen-data-008.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### RevealedHow US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security - ![Documents show GCHQ has had access to the NSA's Prism programme since at least June 2010](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/7/1370610656177/Documents-show-GCHQ-has-h-010.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation - ![GCHQ composite](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/16/1371408775664/GCHQ-composite-002.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits - ![Access to the future 3](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/21/1371830464333/Access-to-the-future-3-010.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications Debate - ![Alan Rusbridger](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2023/06/06/Alan_Rusbridger.png?width=80&dpr=1&s=none&crop=1%3A1) ### Obama's NSA review gives the lie to Britain's timid platitudes: a debate is possible Alan Rusbridger - ![British playwright Tom Stoppard](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2013/12/10/1386633767734/British-playwright-Tom-St-008.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect? Tom Stoppard - ![ Google Data Center in Council Bluffs](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/12/17/1355742828859/-Google-Data-Center-in-Co-008.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### The primary NSA issue isn't privacy, it's authority Jeff Jarvis - ![Chair Lord Burns, Jack Straw, Lord Carlile, Dame Patricia Hodgson and Lord Howard](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/21ff2d762cbddebfe92d667ebac6d18561e37e80/0_0_2560_1535/master/2560.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) The Guardian view on the freedom of information commission: a very British farce Latest - ![FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File )](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c16675184a877d991254c704afd2347790117944/0_327_3000_1801/master/3000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong - ![Edward Snowden](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513/249_0_3598_2160/master/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden - ![Edward Snowden at the 2019 Web Summit in Lisbon in November. US authorities did not seek to block publication of Snowden’s book but rather to seize all proceeds.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee503bc4bbe8fc0b6f53ce62897e1b07ed4f4913/0_21_6562_3938/master/6562.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) US entitled to \$5.2m from Edward Snowden's book sales, court rules - ![Snowden at a videoconference in Estoril in May 2017. Snowden wrote on Twitter: ‘I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful.’](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9955389842cd2d35ab4c74404c93744e75e57b5/8_0_3480_2089/master/3480.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) NSA surveillance exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules seven years on Most viewed - [Most viewed in US news](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tabs-popular-0) - [Most viewed Across the guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tabs-popular-1) ### Most viewed in US news 1. [‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/snowmelt-american-west) 2. [\#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/military-tiktok-iran-war-trump-hegseth) 3. 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