| --- |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: repository_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: labels_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: comments_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: events_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: number |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: title |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: user |
| struct: |
| - name: login |
| dtype: string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: avatar_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gravatar_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: followers_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: following_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gists_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: starred_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: subscriptions_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: organizations_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: repos_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: received_events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: user_view_type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: site_admin |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: labels |
| list: |
| - name: id |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: color |
| dtype: string |
| - name: default |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: description |
| dtype: string |
| - name: state |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: locked |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: assignees |
| list: |
| - name: login |
| dtype: string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: avatar_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gravatar_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: followers_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: following_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gists_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: starred_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: subscriptions_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: organizations_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: repos_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: received_events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: user_view_type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: site_admin |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: milestone |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: comments |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: created_at |
| dtype: timestamp[us, tz=UTC] |
| - name: updated_at |
| dtype: timestamp[us, tz=UTC] |
| - name: closed_at |
| dtype: timestamp[us, tz=UTC] |
| - name: assignee |
| struct: |
| - name: login |
| dtype: string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: avatar_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gravatar_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: followers_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: following_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gists_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: starred_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: subscriptions_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: organizations_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: repos_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: received_events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: user_view_type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: site_admin |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: author_association |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: issue_field_values |
| list: 'null' |
| - name: type |
| struct: |
| - name: id |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: name |
| dtype: string |
| - name: description |
| dtype: string |
| - name: color |
| dtype: string |
| - name: created_at |
| dtype: string |
| - name: updated_at |
| dtype: string |
| - name: is_enabled |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: active_lock_reason |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: draft |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: pull_request |
| struct: |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: diff_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: patch_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: merged_at |
| dtype: string |
| - name: body |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: closed_by |
| struct: |
| - name: login |
| dtype: string |
| - name: id |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: node_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: avatar_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gravatar_id |
| dtype: string |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: html_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: followers_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: following_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: gists_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: starred_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: subscriptions_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: organizations_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: repos_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: received_events_url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: user_view_type |
| dtype: string |
| - name: site_admin |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: reactions |
| struct: |
| - name: url |
| dtype: string |
| - name: total_count |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: '+1' |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: '-1' |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: laugh |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: hooray |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: confused |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: heart |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: rocket |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: eyes |
| dtype: int64 |
| - name: timeline_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: performed_via_github_app |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: state_reason |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: sub_issues_summary |
| struct: |
| - name: total |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: completed |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: percent_completed |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: issue_dependencies_summary |
| struct: |
| - name: blocked_by |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: total_blocked_by |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: blocking |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: total_blocking |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: pinned_comment |
| dtype: float64 |
| - name: parent_issue_url |
| dtype: large_string |
| - name: is_pull_request |
| dtype: bool |
| - name: comments_text |
| list: string |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 267859196 |
| num_examples: 41618 |
| download_size: 185645233 |
| dataset_size: 267859196 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| - summarization |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - github |
| - issues |
| - bug-report |
| - pull-request |
| - software-engineering |
| - transformers |
| - huggingface |
| pretty_name: HuggingFace Transformers GitHub Issues |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| --- |
| |
| # HuggingFace Transformers GitHub Issues Dataset |
|
|
| ## Dataset Description |
|
|
| This dataset contains **all issues and pull requests** (open and closed) from the [`huggingface/transformers`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) GitHub repository, along with their comment threads. It was collected on **July 19-20, 2026** via the [GitHub REST API](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/issues) and follows the workflow described in the [Hugging Face NLP course — Creating your own dataset](https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter5/6). |
|
|
| - **Repository:** [huggingface/transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) |
| - **Total rows:** 41,618 (issues + pull requests) |
| - **Date range:** November 3, 2018 → July 19, 2026 |
| - **Format:** Parquet (single shard, `train` split) |
|
|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
|
| ### Splits |
|
|
| | Split | Num examples | |
| |-------|-------------:| |
| | train | 41,618 | |
|
|
| ### Composition |
|
|
| | Type | Count | |
| |-----------------|-------:| |
| | Issues | 17,960 | |
| | Pull requests | 23,658 | |
| | Open | 1,900 | |
| | Closed | 39,718 | |
| | With labels | 9,665 | |
| | With comments | 37,174 | |
| | Total comments | 159,388 | |
|
|
| ### Key Columns |
|
|
| | Column | Type | Description | |
| |---------------------|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
| | `number` | int64 | GitHub issue/PR number (unique, no duplicates) | |
| | `title` | string | Issue/PR title | |
| | `body` | string | Issue/PR body (Markdown; 251 nulls + 688 empty — normal) | |
| | `state` | string | `open` or `closed` | |
| | `is_pull_request` | bool | `True` if this row is a PR, `False` if it's an issue | |
| | `labels` | list | List of label objects (`name`, `color`, `id`, ...) — 9,665 rows have labels | |
| | `comments` | int64 | Number of comments on the issue | |
| | `comments_text` | list[str] | The body text of each comment (fetched separately via the comments API) | |
| | `user` | struct | The author (login, id, avatar_url, type, ...) | |
| | `created_at` | timestamp | When the issue/PR was created | |
| | `updated_at` | timestamp | When it was last updated | |
| | `closed_at` | timestamp | When it was closed (null for 1,900 open issues) | |
| | `reactions` | struct | Reaction counts (+1, -1, laugh, heart, rocket, eyes, ...) | |
| | `pull_request` | struct | PR metadata (url, diff_url, patch_url, merged_at) — null for issues | |
| | `assignees` | list | Assigned users | |
| | `milestone` | float64 | Milestone (100% null for this repo) | |
| |
| ### Top Labels |
| |
| | Label | Count | |
| |--------------------|------:| |
| | wontfix | 2,633 | |
| | bug | 2,495 | |
| | Feature request | 786 | |
| | New model | 683 | |
| | model card | 654 | |
| | WIP | 380 | |
| | Vision | 268 | |
| | run-slow | 198 | |
| | Code agent slop | 189 | |
| | dependencies | 188 | |
| | Good First Issue | 183 | |
| | Core: Tokenization | 170 | |
| | Audio | 166 | |
| | trainer | 146 | |
| | Good Second Issue | 129 | |
| |
| ## Collection Methodology |
| |
| The dataset was collected using a custom Python script ([`prepare_dataset.py`](https://github.com/)) that: |
| |
| 1. **Fetched all issues + PRs** using the GitHub REST API with `since`-based pagination (sorted by `updated_at` ascending) to bypass GitHub's 10,000-record page-number cap. Issues were written incrementally to a JSONL file for crash recovery. |
| 2. **Added an `is_pull_request` flag** based on whether the `pull_request` field is present. |
| 3. **Pushed the issues-only dataset to the Hub** (as a safety checkpoint before the long comment fetch). |
| 4. **Fetched comment bodies** for every issue with `comments > 0` (4,441 zero-comment issues were skipped as an optimization). Comments were fetched with `per_page=100` to minimize pagination requests. |
| 5. **Pushed the final dataset** (issues + comments) to the Hub. |
|
|
| GitHub's authenticated rate limit (5,000 requests/hour) was respected throughout — the script sleeps until the rate-limit window resets when the budget is exhausted, with a one-hour fallback sleep if the reset header is missing. |
|
|
| ## Known Limitations |
|
|
| - **5,799 missing issue numbers** in the range 1–47,417: these correspond to deleted issues/PRs on GitHub that cannot be retrieved via the API. This is expected and unavoidable. |
| - **65 minor mismatches** between the `comments` count field and the length of `comments_text`: these occur when comments were added or deleted between the issue fetch and the comment fetch. The `comments` field reflects the count at fetch time; `comments_text` reflects the actual comments retrieved. |
| - **`milestone`, `performed_via_github_app`, `pinned_comment`** are 100% null — these fields are not used on this repository. |
| - **`body` has 251 nulls and 688 empty strings** — some issues/PRs simply have no body text. |
| - The dataset includes **both issues and pull requests** (GitHub's issues endpoint returns both). Use the `is_pull_request` column to filter. |
|
|
| ## Potential Use Cases |
|
|
| - **Issue classification:** Train a model to categorize issues (bug, feature request, question) based on title + body. |
| - **Bug triage:** Predict which label an issue should have, or whether it's likely to be closed. |
| - **Duplicate detection:** Find semantically similar issues using embeddings of title + body. |
| - **Pull request summarization:** Summarize long PR bodies or comment threads. |
| - **Software engineering research:** Analyze issue lifecycle, response times, contributor activity, label distributions, etc. |
| - **LLM fine-tuning:** Build instruction-tuning datasets for "classify this issue" or "summarize this thread" tasks. |
|
|
| ## Licensing |
|
|
| The dataset is derived from public GitHub issue data from the [`huggingface/transformers`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) repository, which is licensed under [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/LICENSE). The dataset is provided under the same license. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| If you use this dataset, please cite: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{transformers-issues-dataset, |
| author = {Noamaan Mulla}, |
| title = {HuggingFace Transformers GitHub Issues Dataset}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/noamaanMulla-03/transformers-issues}, |
| note = {Collected via the GitHub REST API on July 19-20, 2026} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| Also cite the original repository: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{wolf2019huggingface, |
| author = {Thomas Wolf and Lysandre Debut and Victor Sanh and Julien Chaumond and Clement Delangue and Anthony Moi and Pierric Cistac and Tim Rault and Rémi Louf and Morgan Funtowicz and Joe Davison and Sam Shleifer and Patrick von Platen and Clara Ma and Yacine Jernite and Julien Plu and Canwen Xu and Teven Le Scao and Sylvain Gugger and Mariama Drame and Quentin Lhoest and Alexander M. Rush}, |
| title = {HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing}, |
| year = {2019}, |
| publisher = {GitHub}, |
| howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/transformers}} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
