trentmkelly/fiction_dot_live

Fiction.live Public Stories

This dataset contains public story metadata and story text from Fiction.live, exported as zstd-compressed Parquet files. The collection covers active, finished, and hiatus stories across teen, mature, unrated, and NSFW content ratings.

The dataset includes adult and user-generated content. Downstream users should filter by content_rating, tags, and story metadata as appropriate for their use case.

Files

File	Rows	Description
stories.parquet	12,399	One row per story, including title, description, authors, tags, counts, status, content rating, and raw story metadata.
story_text_posts.parquet	91,228	Text-bearing story nodes, such as chapters and recovered story posts, with HTML bodies and story-local sequence fields.
story_bookmarks.parquet	59,473	Story bookmark/chapter index entries, including bookmark titles, post IDs, and sequence order.
posts.parquet	489,363	Raw referenced post/node records associated with stories, including post type, route metadata, HTML body when present, and raw JSON.

Coverage

• Stories: 12,399
• Stories with at least one text row: 11,118
• Stories without a usable text row: 1,281
• Content ratings:
  • teen: 2,904 stories
  • mature: 3,336 stories
  • unrated: 1,916 stories
  • nsfw: 4,243 stories
• Story creation timestamps range from 2012-11-18 to 2026-05-14 UTC.
• Text node timestamps range from 2012-11-18 to 2026-05-14 UTC.

Field Reference

stories.parquet

Field	Description
id	Fiction.live story ID.
title	Story title.
description	Story description or summary, when available.
authors_json	JSON array of author objects.
author_names	Comma-separated author display names.
created_at_ms	Story creation timestamp in Unix milliseconds.
updated_at_ms	Last story update timestamp in Unix milliseconds.
last_chapter_at_ms	Last chapter/story activity timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
story_status	Story status, such as active, finished, or hiatus.
content_rating	Content rating: teen, mature, unrated, or nsfw.
tags_json	JSON array of public story tags.
spoiler_tags_json	JSON array of spoiler tags, when available.
image_urls_json	JSON array of associated image URLs.
view_count, post_count, word_count, like_count, dislike_count	Public count fields from the story metadata.
is_live	Boolean-like integer indicating whether the story was live at collection time.
next_live_ms	Scheduled next-live timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
raw_json	Raw story metadata JSON.
scraped_at_ms	Dataset collection timestamp in Unix milliseconds.

story_text_posts.parquet

Field	Description
post_id	Text node/post ID.
story_id	Parent story ID.
title	Chapter or node title, when available.
post_type	Node type, such as chapter, choice, or readerPost.
body_html	Story text as HTML.
created_at_ms	Node creation timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
sequence	Story-local ordering value.

story_bookmarks.parquet

Field	Description
story_id	Parent story ID.
post_id	Bookmark target node/post ID.
title	Bookmark title.
created_at_ms	Bookmark timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
sequence	Bookmark order within the story.
raw_json	Raw bookmark metadata JSON.

posts.parquet

Field	Description
id	Post/node ID.
story_id	Parent story ID.
post_type	Post/node type.
body_html	Post body as HTML, when present.
created_at_ms	Post creation timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
updated_at_ms	Post update timestamp in Unix milliseconds, when available.
authors_json	JSON array of author objects, when available.
route_json	JSON route metadata connecting the post/node to the story.
raw_json	Raw post/node JSON.
scraped_at_ms	Dataset collection timestamp in Unix milliseconds.

License

This dataset is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.