April and May Microdescriptor Consensuses?
Hello, I am an academic working on some Tor research and am trying to download the microdescriptor consensuses and microdescriptors for May and April, and it seems on the CollecTor website that these consensuses are missing from the archive (along with many microdescriptors for April). The regular descriptors seem to be there for May, and recent microdescriptors consensuses are available (though the router status entries in them have future-dated timestamps), but I don't see a way to access the microdescriptor information for this time window. I was hoping you could let me know whether to expect this data to be filled in later, whether I'm misunderstanding something about the way the data is stored, or whether it's just missing. Thanks so much! -- -Ellis
Hi Ellis, Thanks for letting us know. You're right, we were failing to archive the microdescriptor consensus documents. I've just pushed a fix, so this should be resolved from now on. That said, we did have some data archiving issues during April (and it looks like May too, unfortunately), so not all of the data is available in the archives at the moment. The silver lining is that we do have this data archived in our database, and I'd be happy to share the table dumps (or the reconstructed documents) with you. Would that work? Cheers, -silvia On 01/06/2026 16:38, Ellis Fenske via network-health wrote:
Hello,
I am an academic working on some Tor research and am trying to download the microdescriptor consensuses and microdescriptors for May and April, and it seems on the CollecTor website that these consensuses are missing from the archive (along with many microdescriptors for April).
The regular descriptors seem to be there for May, and recent microdescriptors consensuses are available (though the router status entries in them have future-dated timestamps), but I don't see a way to access the microdescriptor information for this time window.
I was hoping you could let me know whether to expect this data to be filled in later, whether I'm misunderstanding something about the way the data is stored, or whether it's just missing.
Thanks so much!
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Hi Silvia, Thank you, sure, that would be great! Either format works for me. Ideally, I'd like the microdescriptor consensuses and microdescriptors for April/May to make my dataset complete, but I will happily take whatever is available in whichever format is less trouble on your end! Ellis On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM Silvia Puglisi [Hiro] <hiro@torproject.org> wrote:
Hi Ellis,
Thanks for letting us know. You're right, we were failing to archive the microdescriptor consensus documents. I've just pushed a fix, so this should be resolved from now on.
That said, we did have some data archiving issues during April (and it looks like May too, unfortunately), so not all of the data is available in the archives at the moment.
The silver lining is that we do have this data archived in our database, and I'd be happy to share the table dumps (or the reconstructed documents) with you. Would that work?
Cheers,
-silvia
On 01/06/2026 16:38, Ellis Fenske via network-health wrote:
Hello,
I am an academic working on some Tor research and am trying to download the microdescriptor consensuses and microdescriptors for May and April, and it seems on the CollecTor website that these consensuses are missing from the archive (along with many microdescriptors for April).
The regular descriptors seem to be there for May, and recent microdescriptors consensuses are available (though the router status entries in them have future-dated timestamps), but I don't see a way to access the microdescriptor information for this time window.
I was hoping you could let me know whether to expect this data to be filled in later, whether I'm misunderstanding something about the way the data is stored, or whether it's just missing.
Thanks so much!
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