---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- en
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-classification
pretty_name: adult-fanfiction.org Archive Dataset
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
tags:
- fiction
- fanfiction
- creative-writing
- long-form-text
- adult-content
configs:
- config_name: archives
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: archives/archives.parquet
- config_name: pages
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: pages/pages.parquet
- config_name: stories
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: stories/stories.parquet
- config_name: chapters
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: chapters/chapters.parquet
---

# adult-fanfiction.org Archive Dataset

This dataset contains story metadata, chapter text, and archive page records from public adult-fanfiction.org archive subdomains.

The dataset is organized into four parquet tables:

| Table | Rows | Description |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| `archives` | 22 | Archive subdomains included in the dataset. |
| `pages` | 16,597 | Archive/listing pages represented in the crawl. |
| `stories` | 126,380 | One row per story, including metadata and declared chapter count. |
| `chapters` | 525,650 | One row per story chapter, including HTML and plain text. |

## Files

- `archives/archives.parquet`
- `pages/pages.parquet`
- `stories/stories.parquet`
- `chapters/chapters.parquet`

All parquet files are compressed with Zstandard (`zstd`).

## Schema

### `archives`

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `host` | string | Archive subdomain host. |
| `base_url` | string | Base URL for the archive. |
| `started_at` | string | Timestamp when the archive record was created. |

### `pages`

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | string | Archive/listing page URL. |
| `archive_host` | string | Archive subdomain host. |
| `status` | integer | HTTP status returned for the page. |
| `fetched_at` | string | Timestamp when the page record was written. |
| `elapsed_ms` | integer | Request time in milliseconds. |
| `story_links_found` | integer | Number of story links found on the page. |
| `archive_links_found` | integer | Number of archive/listing links found on the page. |

### `stories`

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `archive_host` | string | Archive subdomain host. |
| `story_id` | string | Story identifier from the source site. |
| `url` | string | Canonical story URL. |
| `title` | string | Story title. |
| `author_name` | string | Author display name. |
| `author_url` | string | Author profile URL when available. |
| `category` | string | Archive/category path shown for the story. |
| `rating` | string | Source-site rating label. |
| `chapters_count` | integer | Declared number of chapters. |
| `views` | integer | Source-site view count. |
| `reviews` | integer | Source-site review count. |
| `recommended` | integer | Source-site recommendation count. |
| `currently_reading` | integer | Source-site currently-reading count. |
| `published_date` | string | Published date as shown by the source site. |
| `updated_date` | string | Updated date as shown by the source site, when present. |
| `description` | string | Story summary or listing description. |
| `disclaimer` | string | Story disclaimer text, when present. |
| `tags_json` | string | JSON-encoded list of source-site tags. |
| `metadata_json` | string | JSON-encoded source metadata key/value pairs. |
| `fetched_at` | string | Timestamp when the story record was written. |

### `chapters`

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `archive_host` | string | Archive subdomain host. |
| `story_id` | string | Story identifier from the source site. |
| `chapter_number` | integer | Chapter number within the story. |
| `chapter_url` | string | Chapter URL. |
| `title` | string | Chapter title, when present. |
| `body_html` | string | Chapter body HTML. |
| `body_text` | string | Plain-text chapter body. |
| `fetched_at` | string | Timestamp when the chapter record was written. |

## Data Quality Notes

- The dataset contains `525,650` chapter rows, matching the sum of `stories.chapters_count`.
- All story rows include title, author name, published date, rating, view count, and tags fields.
- No chapter rows have empty `body_text`.
- Source date fields are preserved as displayed on the website and are not normalized.
- `tags_json` and `metadata_json` are JSON strings.

## License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (`CC-BY-SA-4.0`).

## Content Warning

This dataset contains adult-oriented fiction and may include explicit sexual content, violence, sensitive themes, and other mature material.