diff --git a/warc_wat_url_processor.py b/warc_wat_url_processor.py
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+import subprocess
+import os
+import gzip
+import zstandard as zstd
+import re
+import traceback  # Import traceback module
+from multiprocessing import Pool
+
+def extract_urls_from_file(file_path):
+    urls = []
+    try:
+        with gzip.open(file_path, 'rt', encoding='latin-1') as file:
+            for line in file:
+                # Extract URLs using regular expression
+                url_pattern = re.compile(r'http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\\(\\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+')
+                line_urls = re.findall(url_pattern, line)
+                urls.extend(line_urls)
+    except (gzip.BadGzipFile, EOFError) as e:
+        print(f"Error while reading the compressed file '{file_path}': {e}")
+    except Exception as e:
+        print(f"An unexpected error occurred while processing '{file_path}': {e}")
+        print("Full traceback:")
+        traceback.print_exc()  # Print the full traceback
+    
+    return urls
+
+def process_file(file_path):
+    print(f"Processing file: {file_path}")
+
+    # Extract URLs from the gzipped file
+    urls = extract_urls_from_file(file_path)
+
+    # Create the output file path with '_urls.txt' extension
+    output_file_path = os.path.splitext(file_path)[0] + '_urls.txt'
+    print(f"Output file path: {output_file_path}")
+
+    # Write the URLs to the output file
+    with open(output_file_path, 'w') as output_file:
+        output_file.write('\n'.join(urls))
+    print(f"URLs written to {output_file_path}")
+
+    # Compress the output file using zstd with compression level -10
+    with open(output_file_path, 'rb') as input_file, open(output_file_path + '.zst', 'wb') as output_zstd_file:
+        cctx = zstd.ZstdCompressor(level=-10)
+        output_zstd_file.write(cctx.compress(input_file.read()))
+    print(f"Compressed file saved as '{output_file_path}.zst'")
+
+    # Remove the original gzipped file
+    os.remove(file_path)
+    print(f"Original file removed: {file_path}")
+
+def extract_urls_from_directory(directory_path):
+    # Get the list of files in the directory and sort them
+    file_list = sorted(os.listdir(directory_path))
+
+    # Create a multiprocessing Pool with the number of processes
+    # based on the available CPU cores
+    pool = Pool(processes=7)
+
+    # Map the file processing function to the list of files
+    pool.map(process_file, [os.path.join(directory_path, filename) for filename in file_list if filename.endswith('.warc.gz')])
+
+    # Close the pool to free up resources
+    pool.close()
+    pool.join()
+
+# Read the URLs from the file
+with open('urls_to_download.txt', 'r') as file:
+    urls = file.readlines()
+
+# Remove any leading/trailing whitespace from the URLs
+urls = [url.strip() for url in urls]
+
+# Define the batch size
+batch_size = 48
+
+# Define the concurrency level (number of download processes running concurrently)
+concurrency_level = 4
+
+# Split the URLs into batches
+batches = [urls[i:i+batch_size] for i in range(0, len(urls), batch_size)]
+
+# Iterate over the batches and download URLs
+for batch in batches:
+    # Create a multiprocessing Pool with the specified concurrency level
+    pool = Pool(processes=concurrency_level)
+
+    for url in batch:
+        # Create the command to download the URL using axel with 3 connections
+        command = f'axel -n 2 {url}'
+
+        # Start the subprocess in the background
+        pool.apply_async(subprocess.run, args=(command,), kwds={'shell': True})
+
+    # Close the pool to indicate that no more tasks will be added
+    pool.close()
+
+    # Wait for all processes in the pool to finish
+    pool.join()
+
+# Extract URLs from the downloaded files
+extract_urls_from_directory(os.getcwd())