---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: url
    dtype: string
  - name: ai_description
    dtype: string
  - name: palettes
    struct:
    - name: '1'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 1
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '2'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 2
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '3'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 3
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '4'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 4
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '5'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 5
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '6'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 6
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '7'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 7
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
    - name: '8'
      dtype:
        array2_d:
          shape:
          - 8
          - 3
          dtype: uint8
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 28536733
    num_examples: 24998
  download_size: 4159745
  dataset_size: 28536733
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
license: other
license_name: unsplash-commercial
license_link: https://github.com/unsplash/datasets/blob/master/DOCS.md
task_categories:
- text-to-image
- image-to-text
language:
- en
tags:
- unsplash
- v1.2.1
pretty_name: Unsplash Lite w/ Palettes
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
- 1aurent/unsplash-lite
---

# The Unsplash Lite Dataset (v1.2.1) with color palettes

![](https://unsplash.com/blog/content/images/2020/08/dataheader.jpg)

The Lite dataset contains all of the same fields as the Full dataset, but is limited to ~25,000 photos.
It can be used for both commercial and non-commercial usage, provided you abide by [the terms](https://github.com/unsplash/datasets/blob/master/TERMS.md).

The Unsplash Dataset is made available for research purposes.
[It cannot be used to redistribute the images contained within](https://github.com/unsplash/datasets/blob/master/TERMS.md).
To use the Unsplash library in a product, see [the Unsplash API](https://unsplash.com/developers).

This subset of the dataset contains only urls to the images, their descriptions generated from an AI service, and 8 palettes (generated using [okolors](https://github.com/Ivordir/Okolors)).

To download the images from the urls, you may do something like this:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset, DownloadManager, Image

ds = load_dataset("1aurent/unsplash-lite-palette")

def download_image(url: str | list[str]) -> str | list[str]:
  dl_manager = DownloadManager()
  filename = dl_manager.download(url)
  return {"image": filename}

ds = ds.map(
  function=download_image,
  input_columns=["url"],
  batched=True,
  num_proc=6,
)
ds = ds.cast_column(
  column="image",
  feature=Image(),
)
```

![](https://unsplash.com/blog/content/images/2020/08/footer-alt.jpg)