akaruineko/shorts_youtube-comments

Youtube/Youtube Shorts Comments Dataset (Russian & English)

Brief Description

A large dataset of approximately 290,000 comments collected from YouTube Shorts videos in Russian and English. Each comment is stored on its own line.

Dataset Description

The dataset contains raw text comments, one comment per line. It is suitable for training language models, text analysis, or other NLP tasks.

Data Format

• File type: plain text (.txt)
• Each comment occupies exactly one line
• No empty lines between comments

Example:

Great video, thanks!
Really cool, looking forward to more!
Didn’t like it, too noisy.

Data Source

Comments were collected from publicly available YouTube/Youtube Shorts videos, without using any private or confidential data.

Usage Example

Example of loading and preprocessing the file:

with open("dataset.txt", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    comments = [line.strip() for line in f if line.strip()]

print(f"Total comments: {len(comments)}")
print("Sample comment:", comments[0])

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License. Free to use, modify, and redistribute with preservation of copyright notice.

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