--- 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 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}} } ```