Datasets:

TornadoLabs
/

activitynet

license: other
license_name: academic-source-terms
license_link: https://activity-net.org/
task_categories:
  - video-classification
  - text-to-video
  - video-text-to-text
language:
  - en
tags:
  - video
  - youtube
  - tornadolabs
pretty_name: ActivityNet v1.3

ActivityNet v1.3

15,941 videos (391.3 GB) with 1,550 subtitle files, downloaded at source quality and re-hosted for direct use — no more dead YouTube links, no more flaky downloader scripts.

What's inside

metadata.jsonl — one row per video: video_id, video_url (direct HTTPS download, CDN-backed), subtitle_url, youtube_url, size_bytes
The 15,941 MP4s (391.3 GB) and 1,550 subtitle files are hosted on Hugging Face storage and served via the video_url column
captions.parquet — 23,064 academic annotations (source: annotations.csv)

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("TornadoLabs/activitynet", split="train")
print(ds[0])

# download one video
import requests
r = requests.get(ds[0]["video_url"])
open(f"{ds[0]['video_id']}.mp4", "wb").write(r.content)

How this dataset was built

Every video was fetched through the Tornado API bulk pipeline and delivered straight into Hugging Face storage via its S3-compatible gateway — the exact workflow documented here.

Of the original ID list, only videos still publicly available on YouTube are included (dead/private videos are listed upstream and excluded here).

Provenance & citation

Original dataset: http://activity-net.org/
Paper: Caba Heilbron et al., CVPR 2015 — ActivityNet: A Large-Scale Video Benchmark for Human Activity Understanding
19,994 vidéos, 200 classes d'activités, annotations temporelles segment-niveau.

The video files remain the property of their respective YouTube uploaders. The annotations belong to the original dataset authors — cite their paper if you use them. This re-hosting is provided for reproducible research; if you are a rights holder and want content removed, open a discussion on this repo.

Build your own video dataset

Need a custom corpus (different IDs, other platforms, higher volume)? Tornado API downloads YouTube at scale — bulk endpoints, S3/R2/HF delivery, subtitles and metadata included.