Software Heritage Datasets

Software Heritage is the largest existing public archive of software source code and accompanying development history. The Software Heritage Graph Dataset is a fully deduplicated Merkle DAG representation of the Software Heritage archive.The dataset links together file content identifiers, source code directories, Version Control System (VCS) commits tracking evolution over time, up to the full states of VCS repositories as observed by Software Heritage during periodic crawls. The dataset’s contents come from major development forges (including GitHub and GitLab), FOSS distributions (e.g., Debian), and language-specific package managers (e.g., PyPI). Crawling information is also included, providing timestamps about when and where all archived source code artifacts have been observed in the wild. Author and committer information is anonymized.

Full graph exports

A fully-deduplicated Merkle DAG representation of the Software Heritage archive

Derived datasets

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Teaser datasets

If the full datasets are too big, we also provide teaser datasets that can get you started and have a smaller footprint.

Datasets by export date

Access datasets by date.

By accessing the datasets, you agree with the Software Heritage Ethical Charter for using the archive data, the terms of use for bulk access, and the Software Heritage principles for large language models.

To learn how to use the datasets read the documentation.

If you use these datasets for research purposes, please cite the following paper: Antoine Pietri, Diomidis Spinellis, Stefano Zacchiroli. The Software Heritage Graph Dataset: Public software development under one roof. In proceedings of MSR 2019: The 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, May 2019, Montreal, Canada. Co-located with ICSE 2019. preprint, bibtex