---
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

```python
{
    "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

```python
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

```bibtex
@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