Douban Friendship Network (December 2010)
A Douban (Chinese social network) dataset of 154,908 users and 327,162 friendship edges, collected by Long Qiu via Douban crawl (December 2010). Each record contains user-user friendship edges and user IDs. The dataset is notable for its friendship network from Douban, China's largest online community for book, movie, and music reviews and recommendations. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, Chinese social media research, and content-sharing platform structure studies.
Cite this dataset at
douban.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 154,908 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
douban- Authors
- Qiu, Long; Zafarani, R.; Liu, H.
- Year
- 2010
- Source paper
- Douban Friendship Network Dataset
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.57702/txqtf7eg
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 154,908
- Nodes
- 154,908
- Edges
- 327,162
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- zh
- Collected
- December 2010 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- China · East Asia (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 8.4 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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}
}
@misc{qiu2010douban,
title = {{Douban Friendship Network Dataset}},
author = {Qiu, Long and Zafarani, R. and Liu, H.},
year = {2010},
publisher = {Data Lab, Syracuse University},
url = {https://datasets.syr.edu}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Qiu, L., Zafarani, R., & Liu, H. (2010). Douban Friendship Network (December 2010) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.57702/txqtf7eg
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Qiu, Long, et al. Douban Friendship Network (December 2010). 2010, doi.org/10.57702/txqtf7eg.