Datasets:
license: odc-by
language:
- pt
pretty_name: PT-BR Blogs (long-form, C4-derived)
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
- text-generation
tags:
- pt-br
- brazilian-portuguese
- blogs
- long-form
- c4
- pretraining
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/*.parquet
PT-BR Blogs (long-form, C4-derived)
Part of the MagTina350m pretrain corpus release by Dataseek
under the Magestic.ai brand. This is one of nine silver-layer datasets that fed
dataseek/magtina350m-base.
Summary
185 K long-form Brazilian-Portuguese blog posts (≥ 5 K words each) extracted from C4 by filtering Blogspot, WordPress, Medium and similar platform domains. Higher per-document quality than generic web; useful for stylistic diversity and long-context training.
Source and collection method
Source: AllenAI C4 PT-BR slice → blog-platform domain filter → minimum-length gate (≥ 5 000 words) → NFKD normalisation → URL dedup.
ETL script (in the MagTina1B repository): scripts/etl/14_blogs_c4_v1.py (public release of the ETL scripts is on the roadmap; until then the data card below documents the recipe in full).
Filters and deduplication
The following filters were applied before this dataset reached its silver (release-ready) state:
- Blog-platform domains only (blogspot, wordpress, medium, ghost, …)
- Word count ≥ 5 000 (long-form gate)
- URL dedup across web corpora
Global URL-normalised deduplication was applied across all web-derived corpora
(webpages, news, blogs) so the same article does not appear twice across
those three datasets.
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id |
int64 |
Stable row id. |
text |
string |
Blog post body. |
url |
string |
Source URL. |
domain |
string |
Hosting platform domain. |
timestamp |
timestamp |
Crawl timestamp. |
n_chars |
int32 |
Character count of text. |
Columns dropped at export (kept private as ETL internals): quality_score
Size statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Rows | 185.0 K (185,012) |
| Characters | 6.92 B (6,923,317,314) |
| Estimated tokens (PT-BR, chars / 4.5) | 1.54 B |
| Compressed Parquet on disk | ~3.87 GB |
Used in MagTina350m pretrain: 1.540 B tokens (8.9 % of MagTina350m's 17.39 B-token pretrain budget).
How to load
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("dataseek/ptbr-blogs", split="train", streaming=True)
for row in ds.take(5):
print(row["text"][:200])
Streaming is recommended for the larger configs. For the smaller datasets
(ptbr-dou, ptbr-books-publicos) eager loading is fine.
Licensing
ODC-BY 1.0 (CommonCrawl-derived). Long-form blog content; individual posts remain copyright of their authors. Use for non-commercial research is the safest interpretation; commercial use requires per-author clearance.
Upstream attribution: AllenAI C4 + individual blog authors
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite both the upstream source and MagTina350m:
@misc{magtina350m_pretrain_2026,
title = {MagTina350m pretrain corpus — PT-BR Blogs (long-form, C4-derived)},
author = {Frasson, Ricardo and {Dataseek Team}},
year = 2026,
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/dataseek/ptbr-blogs}
}
Please also honour the upstream license terms — for CC-BY-derived data, attribution to the upstream creators is mandatory; for CC-BY-SA, downstream derivatives must remain CC-BY-SA-compatible.
Intended use
- Pre-training, continued pre-training, or domain-adapting of Brazilian Portuguese language models.
- PT-BR NLP research where statistically representative public-web / academic / legal / encyclopedic data is needed.
- Reproducing or improving on the MagTina350m result.
Known limitations and PII statement
- Text was NOT PII-scrubbed. URLs, emails, phone numbers and personal names that occurred in the source data may still be present. We strip zero-width characters and normalise Unicode but we do not run an NER pass.
- Crawled data carries upstream biases of CommonCrawl, Wikipedia, news outlets and academic institutions present in the source. We have not audited these.
- No safety filtering beyond langid and basic alpha-ratio gates. Hate-speech, spam and adult content present in the source remain unless caught incidentally.
- Provenance preserved at row level. Every row has either a
url,sourceordoc_idcolumn that points back to upstream — this is intentional, so consumers can re-license, redact or filter.
Related releases
- Model:
dataseek/magtina350m-base(354.6 M params, pretrained on this corpus + 8 sibling datasets) - Instruct model:
dataseek/magtina350m-instruct - Sibling datasets: see
dataseek/ptbr-*for all nine corpora