Danbooru2023_metadata

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Metadata of posts from Danbooru, up to post #7042183.

Contains only active posts (see below). Also, child posts which have 'pixel-perfect_duplicate' were removed.

Columns

id, md5, created_at, updated_at, score, up_score, down_score, rating, image_width, image_height, file_ext, parent_id, duration, pixel_hash, tag_string_general, tag_string_character, tag_string_copyright, tag_string_artist, tag_string_meta

Rating

• g (general): Completely safe for work.
• s (sensitive): Probably not safe for work.
• q (questionable): Softcore erotica.
• e (explicit): Hardcore erotica. Definitely not safe for work.

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Specifics of Danbooru

Status

Every danbooru posts could be categorized to four types of status.

1. Active: Posts that are approved by a moderator.
2. Pending: Posts that are waiting to be approved. If a post is pending for more than 3 days without a moderator's approval, the post is deleted.
3. Deleted: Posts that do not meet danbooru's standards. (Non-anime, low quality, etc)
4. Banned: Posts that are copyright-claimed or contain off-limit content.

Therefore, we should only use images from active posts. (Banned posts cannot be downloaded by normal users.)

Sadly, the Danbooru2021 dataset did not filter any deleted posts, and a lot of text-to-image models were trained with deleted posts.

From a total of 7,042,183 posts, there are 224,522 banned posts and 370,595 deleted posts. Deleted posts take 5.26% of the total posts, which is not trivial. Therefore, this dataset have not included them.

Misc

• If you aim to create your own anime-based image dataset from danbooru posts, you should definitely exclude posts with the following tags: cosplay_photo third-party_edit text-only_page
• Also consider excluding posts with the following tags, if you are aiming for high quality: photo_(medium) 3d no_humans comic

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