Ungoliant
OSCAR ProjectRust pipeline that generates the OSCAR corpus from Common Crawl WET files: language identification, filtering, and metadata annotation. The official OSCAR / Colossal-OSCAR construction pipeline.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- Apache-2.0(OSI)
- source
- public(oscar-project/ungoliant)
- core features withheld
- no
Fully OSI-licensed (Apache-2.0), full source public.
- https://github.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-15
Apache License Version 2.0 text
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-15
README documents the whole pipeline building and installing from the published repo; no paid tier, enterprise edition or license key appears anywhere in it, so nothing is withheld from the source
Adoption
1 medium confidenceGitHub stars are the only usage signal published for this repository, and a star is not a use. It is the official pipeline behind the OSCAR and Colossal-OSCAR corpora, so its importance runs well ahead of that count.
- https://api.github.com/repos/oscar-project/ungoliant recorded 2026-08-12
stargazers_count = 178 for oscar-project/ungoliant
Capability
3 medium confidenceFocused single-corpus pipeline.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/main/Cargo.toml recorded 2026-09-29
Cargo.toml gives the package description "The pipeline for the OSCAR corpus." and lists the "fasttext" crate as a dependency.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29
README describes Ungoliant as "a high-performance pipeline that provides tools to build corpus generation pipelines from CommonCrawl", currently "the generation pipeline for" the OSCAR corpus, with a fastText language identification model ("lid.176.bin") and an optional KenLM feature.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/main/src/filtering/mod.rs recorded 2026-09-29
Rust source of the filtering module: "Filters can operate on sentence or record level"
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscar-project/ungoliant/main/src/pipelines/oscardoc/types/mod.rs recorded 2026-09-29
The oscardoc types module re-exports the OSCAR document metadata type: "pub use oscar_io::v3::Metadata;"
Verified 2026-09-15