YouTube Snapshot 080512
A crawl of YouTube made by Xu Cheng, Cameron Dale and Jiangchuan Liu of Simon Fraser University, which the crawler's log dates from 12 May 2008 to 13 May 2008 (the log's title line reads 'BFS crawl'). It started from 185 seed videos and followed each video's list of related videos breadth-first down to depth 3. The package holds one record for each of the 91,306 videos the crawl visited (185 at depth 0, 1,994 at depth 1, 12,551 at depth 2, 76,576 at depth 3; uploader, age, category, length, number of views, average rating, number of ratings and number of comments) and one directed link for each entry in a visited video's list of related videos (1,146,505 links from 59,270 videos, with the position in the list as rank). The links lead to 621,671 distinct videos, of which 530,503 were not themselves crawled in this crawl and so have no record. It is one of the crawl snapshots of the collection youtube-sfu-collection, and the single row of snapshots describes the crawl from its log.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-sfu-2008-05-12.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 621,798 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Record
- Catalog key
youtube-sfu-080512- Authors
- Cheng, Xu; Dale, Cameron; Liu, Jiangchuan
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Statistics and Social Network of YouTube Videos
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/iwqos.2008.32
- License
- Academic use only (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 621,798
- Nodes
- 621,798
- Edges
- 1,146,464 (directed)
- Nodes are
- video
- Edges are
- related video
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- video metadata
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2007-2008 (2000s)
- Tasks
- Recommendation (ranking) inferred, Rating prediction (regression;
rate) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/youtubedata/ link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 9.9 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: items (91,306 rows), edges (1,146,505 rows), snapshots (1 rows).
- Structure
- Multigraph (repeated links)
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{cheng2008statistics,
title = {Statistics and social network of youtube videos},
author = {Cheng, Xu and Dale, Cameron and Liu, Jiangchuan},
booktitle = {2008 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service},
pages = {229-238},
year = {2008},
organization = {IEEE}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Cheng, X., Dale, C., & Liu, J. (2008). YouTube Snapshot 080512 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/iwqos.2008.32
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Cheng, Xu, et al. YouTube Snapshot 080512. 2008, doi.org/10.1109/iwqos.2008.32.