---
title: "Is Crossref XML Snapshots down? Crossref XML Snapshots status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/xml-snapshots"
description: "Live Crossref XML Snapshots status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref XML Snapshots down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref XML Snapshots is not down. All Crossref XML Snapshots systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T03:31:29Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Metadata Plus
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: Metadata Plus snapshots provide access to all our 100 million plus metadata records in a single file, providing an easy way to retrieve an up-to-date copy of our records. Snapshots are available for Metadata Plus service users. The files are made available via a /snapshots route in the REST API which offers a compressed .tar file (tar.gz) containing the full extract of the metadata corpus in XML format.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting XML Snapshots

No recent incidents.

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/xml-snapshots
- Service: /status/crossref.md