News Text Dataset

1. Product Overview

A news text dataset comprising six websites, with a total of 3,674,341,167 text entries. The websites include Sina, The Paper, People’s Daily Online, Sohu, NetEase, and Xinhua Net. The data collection covers the full range of information available on these sources, spanning from 2014 through the end of 2025. The dataset includes metadata such as title, content, website name, website domain, article link, and image link.

2. Product Directory Structure

Directory Structure

Data directory structure

└─sohu（Source Category）
│├─sohu_202001.txt（Text File）

Naming Convention

CORPUS/TYPE/TEXT e.g., sina/sina_202001.txt

Directory Name · Content · Notes

CORPUS · · Database ID

TYPE · sina, sohu, 163, news, paper, people · Source Categories

TEXT · sina_202001.txt · Text File

3. Text Information

The news text dataset encompasses six websites—Sina, The Paper, People’s Daily Online, Sohu, NetEase, and Xinhua Net—covering the complete set of information available on each source. The specific distribution across websites is as follows:

Language · Number of Entries

Sina · 642,173,297

The Paper · 41,866,039

Xinhua Net · 6,250,328

NetEase · 1,250,385,589

Sohu · 1,680,309,801

People’s Daily Online · 533,561,13

Total · 3,674,341,167

Download Sample Data

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