Habr dataset (mirror)

Provenance / History

This is a re-upload, not an original creation. The original dataset, IlyaGusev/habr, was created and maintained by Ilya Gusev. Its disappearance from the Hub is documented by the author himself in a series of posts on his Telegram channel (@senior_augur, post 599 onward):

• 2026-07-05 — Habr (the website the dataset scrapes) sent Ilya a legal complaint about the dataset. His response, in his own words: "Вот такую писюльку получил 5 минут назад. Нахуй Хабр. Не пишите туда, не читайте его. Датасет я не закрою, пока они не соизволят написать нормальное письмо. После этого сделаю приватным, если кому-то будет нужен - пишите в личку. А лучше скачайте сейчас." (roughly: he'd received a complaint, refused to close the dataset until Habr sent a properly written letter, and told followers to download it now while it was still up.)
• 2026-07-09 — He gated the dataset (access by request only): "Надеюсь, что все кто хотел - скачали, а я пока прикрыл на gated access (то есть только по запросу). Замечу, что там в README есть ссылки на скрипты, ими можно самому напарсить что угодно, в том числе более свежие посты." This is the same day the public, ungated mirror vypivshiy/habr appeared on the Hub — almost certainly someone grabbing a copy at the exact moment gating started, before it closed further.
• 2026-07-10 — A second, more formal letter arrived, apparently drafted by lawyers this time: "Письмо пришло! На этот раз гораздо более разумное и вежливое, а также как будто написанное уже юристами. Датасет я полностью прикрыл, скрины письма приложу в комментах." At this point the original repo was fully closed/privated — which is why it now returns 404 RepoNotFound to unauthorized viewers rather than showing as gated.

This repo is a straight re-upload of the vypivshiy/habr mirror's 31 parquet shards plus its README, made to keep a durable, directly accessible copy of data that is otherwise now unreachable on the Hub. Full credit for the original creation, scraping scripts, and dataset design goes to Ilya Gusev — see his GitHub and the processing script referenced below. If the original IlyaGusev/habr reappears, treat that as the canonical source over this mirror.

Description

Summary: Dataset of posts and comments from habr.com, a Russian collaborative blog about IT, computer science and anything related to the Internet.

Script: create_habr.py

Point of Contact (original): Ilya Gusev

Languages: Russian, English, some programming code.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset('volosati/habr', split="train", streaming=True)
for example in dataset:
    print(example["text_markdown"])

Data Instances

{
  "id": 12730,
  "language": "ru",
  "url": "https://habr.com/ru/post/12730/",
  "text_markdown": "...",
  "text_html": "...",
  "lead_markdown": "...",
  "lead_html": "...",
  "type": "article",
  "labels": [],
  "original_author": null,
  "original_url": null,
  "time_published": 1185962380,
  "author": "...",
  "title": "Хочешь в университет — сделай презентацию",
  "statistics": {
    "commentsCount": 23,
    "favoritesCount": 1,
    "readingCount": 1542,
    "score": 7,
    "votesCount": 15,
    "votesCountPlus": 11,
    "votesCountMinus": 4
  },
  "hubs": [
    "itcompanies"
  ],
  "flows": [
    "popsci"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "PowerPoint",
    "презентация",
    "абитуриенты",
  ],
  "reading_time": 1,
  "format": null,
  "complexity": null,
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 11653537,
      "parent_id": null,
      "level": 0,
      "time_published": 1185963192,
      "score": -1,
      "votes": 1,
      "message_html": "...",
      "message_markdown": "...",
      "author": "...",
      "children": [11653541]
    },
    {
      "id": 11653541,
      "parent_id": 11653537,
      "level": 1,
      "time_published": 1185967886,
      "score": 0,
      "votes": 0,
      "message_html": "...",
      "message_markdown": "...",
      "author": "...",
      "children": []
    }
  ]
}

Source Data

• The data source is the Habr website.
• API call example: post 709430.
• Processing script is here.
• This copy was pulled from the community mirror vypivshiy/habr after the original IlyaGusev/habr disappeared from the Hub (see Provenance above).

Personal and Sensitive Information

The dataset is not anonymized, so individuals' names can be found in the dataset. Information about the original authors is included in the dataset where possible.