This dataset is linked to the paper "Sharing emotions at scale: The Vent dataset" (arXiv:1901.04856 [cs.SI]) , and contains data collected from the Vent social network (https://www.vent.co/). It is structured in files each containing a different entity (i.e. emotion categories, emotions, vent metadata and social links). Entities external to each file are cross-referenced via the anonymized universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). The dataset consists of the following files and data: emotion_categories.csv id (string): a UUID associated with a specific emotion category. name (string): The name of the emotion category. emotions.csv id (string): a UUID associated with a specific emotion. emotion_id (string): a UUID associated with a specific emotion (cross-reference to emotions.csv). name (string): The name of the emotion. enabled (boolean): Whether the emotion was enabled at the time of crawling. vents_metadata.csv emotion_id (string): a UUID associated with a specific emotion (cross-reference to emotions.csv). user_id (string): a UUID associated with a specific user. created_at (string): Date when the vent was posted, in UTC. Provided as a string in the format of “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.sss''. reactions (integer): Total number of reactions to a vent. vent.edgelist The social graph of Vent, containing the directed friendship links between users. Researchers who want to access the text content for research and non-commercial use are welcome to contact us.