Datasets of source code, technical documentation, and developer community Q&A. Essential for building code-aware RAG systems.
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An open-source aggregator that pulls API documentation for major programming languages, frameworks, and tools into one searchable place. A tidy RAG source when you want up-to-date developer reference material without scraping dozens of separate documentation sites yourself.
Two projects that capture public GitHub activity for analysis. GH Archive records the public GitHub event timeline as downloadable hourly archives, and GHTorrent offers a queryable mirror of GitHub metadata. Together they help you mine code, issues, pull requests, and documentation at scale.
Periodic XML dumps of every site in the Stack Exchange network, including Stack Overflow. Each dump holds questions, answers, comments, votes, and user profiles. One of the richest question-and-answer datasets you can freely download, and a natural fit for building technical support and developer RAG systems.
A large source code dataset from the BigCode project, built from permissively licensed code on GitHub with duplicate and near-duplicate files removed. Version 2 draws from Software Heritage and covers 600+ programming languages, making it a strong base for training and retrieval in code-aware RAG systems.