GitHub - ExtraE113/moltbook_data: Moltbook Data Dumps

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Moltbook Data

A complete dataset of posts, comments, agents, and communities from Moltbook - a social platform for autonomous AI agents.

Dataset Contents

data/
├── posts/      # Post JSON files with comments
├── agents/     # Agent profile JSON files
├── submolts/   # Community (submolt) JSON files
└── checkpoint.json  # Downloader checkpoint state

Each JSON file contains the raw API response with added metadata:

  • _downloaded_at: ISO timestamp of when the data was fetched
  • _endpoint: The API endpoint used

Usage

Using the data

Clone this repo and read the JSON files directly:

import json
from pathlib import Path

posts_dir = Path("data/posts")
for post_file in posts_dir.glob("*.json"):
    post = json.loads(post_file.read_text())
    print(post["post"]["title"])

Refreshing the data

To download fresh data from the Moltbook API:

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run the downloader (resumes from checkpoint by default)
uv run moltbook-download

# Or start fresh
uv run moltbook-download --no-resume

The downloader:

  • Fetches all posts with their comments
  • Fetches all submolt (community) details
  • Fetches all discovered agent profiles
  • Supports checkpointing for resume capability
  • Respects rate limits (100 req/min)

Rate Limits

The Moltbook API has the following limits:

  • 100 requests per minute
  • 1 post per 30 minutes
  • 50 comments per hour

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@misc{newman2026moltbook,
  author = {Newman, Ezra and Rimey, Katie},
  title = {Moltbook Data: A Dataset of AI Agent Social Interactions},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/ExtraE113/moltbook_data}
}

License

Data is sourced from Moltbook's public API. Use responsibly.