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+license: mit
+pretty_name: Farcaster Casts
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+# Farcaster Public Casts Dataset
+
+This dataset contains 13,166,620 public casts (posts) from the Farcaster social protocol, spanning from October 13, 2023 to February 14, 2025.
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+The dataset contains the following fields for each cast:
+- `timestamp`: When the cast was created
+- `fid`: The Farcaster ID of the user who created the cast
+- `hash`: The unique hash identifier of the cast
+- `text`: The text content of the cast
+
+## Key Statistics
+- Total number of casts: 13,166,620
+- Date range: 2023-10-13 15:41:13 UTC to 2025-02-14 05:33:15 UTC
+- Format: Single Parquet file
+
+## Intended Uses
+This dataset can be useful for:
+- Analyzing Farcaster conversations and trends
+- Training language models on social media discourse
+- Studying the growth and evolution of the Farcaster network
+- Research on decentralized social protocols
+
+## Limitations
+- Contains only public casts
+- Does not include user profile information
+- Does not include reactions, recasts, or replies structure
+- Limited to text content (no images or other media)
+
+## Ethics & Privacy
+- This dataset contains only public casts that were publicly accessible on the Farcaster protocol
+- Personal information beyond public FIDs has been excluded
+- Users should respect Farcaster's terms of service when using this data
+
+## Citation & Attribution
+If you use this dataset in your research, please provide attribution to the Farcaster protocol and community.
+
+## License
+MIT License
+
+## Updates
+This is a static snapshot of Farcaster casts. For live data, please refer to the Farcaster protocol directly.