---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - image-text-to-text
  - text-to-image
language:
  - en
tags:
  - video
  - frames
  - urls
  - laion
size_categories:
  - 100M<n<1B
---

# LAION-BVD - 300M Video Frame URLs

This repository contains the URLs for **~300 million keyframes** extracted from publicly available web videos. No image data is included, only the source video URL and the frame timestamp needed to reproduce each frame.

Frames were extracted from BVD-RAW and cover YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo content.

## Dataset structure

| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `webpage_url` | string | URL of the source video |
| `frame_pts_time` | float | Presentation timestamp of the frame in seconds |

## Repository structure

```
frames/
  0/
    0000.parquet
    ...
  1/
    ...
```

## Loading the data

```python
import datasets

ds = datasets.load_dataset("laion/BVD-I-300M-URLs", data_dir="frames", split="train")
```

Or with pandas:

```python
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_parquet("frames/", engine="pyarrow")
```

## Reproducing frames

Each frame can be reproduced from its source video using `yt-dlp` and `ffmpeg`:

```bash
yt-dlp -o video.mp4 "<webpage_url>"
ffmpeg -ss <frame_pts_time> -i video.mp4 -frames:v 1 frame.png
```

## Relation to LAION-BVD

| Release | Description |
|---|---|
| [laion/BVD-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-URLs) | 1.3B video URLs extracted from CommonCrawl |
| [laion/BVD-RAW-Index](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-RAW-Index) | File index of the ~80M downloaded raw videos (media by request) |
| [laion/BVD-V-55M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-V-55M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-V-55M-URLs) | 55M scene-level video clips with captions and timestamps |
| [laion/BVD-A-10M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-10M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-10M-URLs) | 10M audio clips randomly sampled from BVD-V-55M |
| [laion/BVD-A-1.7M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-1.7M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-1.7M-URLs) | 1.7M audio clips from BVD-V-55M with unique source videos |
| [laion/BVD-I-300M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-I-300M) / **-URLs** (this dataset) | 300M keyframes sampled from BVD-RAW |

BVD-RAW itself (the raw pool of 80M videos totalling 10M hours) is not distributed through
Hugging Face. The gated subsets and BVD-RAW are available to academic and non-commercial
researchers through a single central [access request form](https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8); the
[BVD-RAW access guide](https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/bvd-raw-access.html) describes the raw-corpus transfer procedure.

## Links

- Project page: <https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/>
- Paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24845>
- Code: <https://github.com/LAION-AI/bvd>
- Terms of Use: [bvd_terms_of_use.pdf](https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/assets/bvd_terms_of_use.pdf)
- Access request form: <https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8>