A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network

<p>There are two main zip files in this dataset. Each zip file contains multiple <a href="http://ndjson.org/">newline delimited JSON files</a>. The JSON objects in each file contain all the key/value pairs returned from their respective Parler API endpoints.</p> <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> All identifying data has been redacted by removing the &quot;name&quot; field from posts, comments and user profiles.</p> <p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03820">Current paper</a> for more details and preferred citation information.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Parler Users (parler_user.zip)</strong></p> <p>Returned by the <em>/v1/profile</em> endpoint. Each line consists of an individual user profile object.</p> <p><strong>Parler Posts and Comments (parlerpostcomments.zip)</strong></p> <p>Returned by the <em>/v1/post[comment] </em>endpoints. Each line consists of an individual post or comment object.</p> <p><strong>How to extract the data:</strong></p> <p>The data provided is compressed in zip format. See the instructions below on how to extract it:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Linux and Mac</strong></li> </ul> <p>Navigate to the file in a terminal window or file browser.</p> <p>Run the following command (or typically you can double click if you are in a file browser):</p> <p>User profiles:</p> <pre><code>unzip parler_users.zip</code></pre> <p>Posts and comments:</p> <pre><code>unzip parler_data.zip</code></pre> <p>The unzipped version contains multiple files for each data type.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Windows</strong></li> </ul> <p>Microsoft provides instructions on to extract a zip file. The authors cannot recommend a particular method or software.</p>