January 15, 2021 Dataset Open Access

A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network

Max Aliapoulios; Emmi Bevensee; Jeremy Blackburn; Barry Bradlyn; Emiliano De Cristofaro; Gianluca Stringhini; Savvas Zannettou

There are two main zip files in this dataset. Each zip file contains multiple newline delimited JSON files. The JSON objects in each file contain all the key/value pairs returned from their respective Parler API endpoints.

NOTE: All identifying data has been redacted by removing the "name" field from posts, comments and user profiles.

Current paper for more details and preferred citation information.

Parler Users (parler_user.zip)

Returned by the /v1/profile endpoint. Each line consists of an individual user profile object.

Parler Posts and Comments (parlerpostcomments.zip)

Returned by the /v1/post[comment] endpoints. Each line consists of an individual post or comment object.

How to extract the data:

The data provided is compressed in zip format. See the instructions below on how to extract it:

• Linux and Mac

Navigate to the file in a terminal window or file browser.

Run the following command (or typically you can double click if you are in a file browser):

User profiles:

unzip parler_users.zip

Posts and comments:

unzip parler_data.zip

The unzipped version contains multiple files for each data type.

• Windows

Microsoft provides instructions on to extract a zip file. The authors cannot recommend a particular method or software.