Datasets:

taozi555
/

novel-multilingual

language:
  - de
  - en
  - es
  - fr
  - in
  - ja
  - pt
  - th
  - vi
  - zh
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
size_categories:
  - 8K<n<9K
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text-classification
pretty_name: WebNovel Multilingual Dataset
tags:
  - webnovel
  - fiction
  - multilingual
  - literature

WebNovel Multilingual Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains web novels scraped from WebNovel.com across multiple languages. Each entry includes the complete novel content with chapter information, metadata, and classification tags.

Note: This dataset excludes content in the following languages: id, ID

Dataset Statistics

Total Novels: 8,324
Total Chapters: 233,410
Total Characters: 1,617,589,129
Languages: 10

Language Distribution

Language	Novels	Chapters	Characters
de	817	20,025	159,981,782
en	998	33,120	255,291,346
es	998	28,274	260,066,210
fr	999	21,456	181,911,896
in	995	31,840	241,799,825
ja	245	3,995	12,411,552
pt	998	24,352	194,863,308
th	612	9,640	66,822,542
vi	663	11,771	130,262,335
zh	999	48,937	114,178,333

Dataset Structure

Fields

title: Novel title
author: Author name
content: Complete novel content with chapter headers
description: Novel description/synopsis
category: Genre/category
tags: List of tags
language: Language code
book_id: Unique book identifier
chapter_count: Number of chapters
total_length: Total character count

Data Format

{
    "title": "Novel Title",
    "author": "Author Name", 
    "content": "## Chapter 1\n\nChapter content...",
    "description": "Novel description",
    "category": "Fantasy",
    "tags": ["magic", "adventure"],
    "language": "en",
    "book_id": "12345",
    "chapter_count": 100,
    "total_length": 250000
}

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load entire dataset
dataset = load_dataset("taozi555/novel-multilingual")

# Load specific language
dataset = load_dataset("taozi555/novel-multilingual", "en")

License

This dataset is released under CC-BY-NC-4.0 license for research and non-commercial use.

Citation

@dataset{novel_multilingual,
  title={Novel Multilingual Dataset},
  author={Novel Scraper},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/taozi555/novel-multilingual}
}

Collection Date

Dataset collected: 2025-05-24

Excluded Languages

The following languages were excluded from this dataset: id, ID