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.zipPosts and comments:
unzip parler_data.zipThe 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.
| Name | Size | |
|---|---|---|
|
parler_data.zip
md5:14e618167b499e717292351169e544d8 |
34.2 GB | Download |
|
parler_users.zip
md5:f3744f15740684f4100c7a33fafc4c33 |
1.1 GB | Download |
| All versions | This version | |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 4,243 | 4,243 |
| Downloads | 2,828 | 2,828 |
| Data volume | 78.5 TB | 78.5 TB |
| Unique views | 3,764 | 3,764 |
| Unique downloads | 1,360 | 1,360 |
- Publication date:
- January 15, 2021
- DOI:
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- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International