laion/BVD-RAW-Index

LAION-BVD — RAW Corpus File Index

This repository is the file index of the LAION-BVD raw corpus: one row for every object stored for the ~80M downloaded videos (video, audio, metadata, subtitles, comments). It contains no media — only object keys and sizes.

The index is the manifest used to fetch the raw files themselves. Access is granted to researchers on request (see Requesting access), after which the keys in this index can be resolved against the object storage.

Requesting access

This index itself is public, but the raw media it points to is not. Access to the raw corpus (and to all gated LAION-BVD subsets) is granted through a single, central access request that you only need to submit once:

➡️ LAION-BVD access request form

Access is restricted to academic and non-commercial research. Requests are reviewed manually on a rolling basis. Once access is granted, the keys in this index can be resolved against the object storage — see the BVD-RAW access guide for the transfer manifest format and delivery steps.

Dataset structure

Column	Type	Description
key	string	Object key, <id>/<id>.<ext>
size	int64	Object size in bytes
id	string	Video ID (e.g. YouTube ID); the _comments suffix is stripped so all files of a video share one id
ext	string	Everything after the first dot of the filename, e.g. mp4, info.json

Rows are sorted by key, and all objects belonging to one video are guaranteed to live in the same shard — a single shard can be processed independently without losing files of a video across a shard boundary.

Repository structure

default/
  index-00000-of-000NN.parquet
  ...

Relation to LAION-BVD

Release	Description
laion/BVD-URLs	1.3B video URLs extracted from CommonCrawl
laion/BVD-RAW-Index — this dataset	File index of the ~80M downloaded raw videos (media by request)
laion/BVD-V-55M / -URLs	55M scene-level video clips with captions and timestamps
laion/BVD-A-10M / -URLs	10M audio clips randomly sampled from BVD-V-55M
laion/BVD-A-1.7M / -URLs	1.7M audio clips from BVD-V-55M with unique source videos
laion/BVD-I-300M / -URLs	300M keyframes sampled from BVD-RAW

BVD-RAW itself — the raw pool of 80M videos totalling 10M hours — is not distributed through Hugging Face. The gated subsets and BVD-RAW are available to academic and non-commercial researchers through a single central access request form; the BVD-RAW access guide describes the raw-corpus transfer procedure.

Links

• Project page: https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24845
• Code: https://github.com/LAION-AI/bvd
• Terms of Use: bvd_terms_of_use.pdf
• Access request form: https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8