Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)

Note: Download access has been temporarily suspended at the request of the ICWSM program chairs.This dataset accompanies a paper submitted to ICWSM 2025 and includes data from 3,167 distinct public Discord servers, containing all their public messages. With over 2 billion messages, the dataset is organized into 3,167 individual JSON files, compressed into dataset.zst, each named after the corresponding server's ID. An additional file, servers.json, provides an overview, description, metadata, and a guide for all the servers. For further details, please refer to the paper. To decompress the dataset, use: zstd -d -c {file_name}.zst | tar -xvf - -C {output_path} Paper Link: arXiv BibTeX formatted citation: @misc{aquino2025discordunveiledcomprehensivedataset, title={Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)}, author={Yan Aquino and Pedro Bento and Arthur Buzelin and Lucas Dayrell and Samira Malaquias and Caio Santana and Victoria Estanislau and Pedro Dutenhefner and Guilherme H. G. Evangelista and Luisa G. Porfírio and Caio Souza Grossi and Pedro B. Rigueira and Virgilio Almeida and Gisele L. Pappa and Wagner Meira Jr}, year={2025}, eprint={2502.00627}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.SI}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00627}, } Version History v6:- Content: Added 303 empty servers to "dataset.zst" and their respective metadata to "servers.json"- Content: "servers.json" and "servers_sample.json" renamed to "servers_metadata.json" and "servers_sample_metadata.json", respectively v5:- Metadata: Updated DOI to match arXiv preprint version v4:- Compression: Migrated from ZIP to Zstandard (.zst) format- Added: Complete "servers.json" file- Documentation: Expanded README with decompression instructions and BibTeX citation v3:- Added: "servers_sample.json" file v2:- Added: "dataset_sample.zip" file v1:- Initial release- Core documentation