Petster Cat Friendship Network
A Petster.com (pet social network — cats) dataset of 149,700 nodes and 5,449,275 edges, collected by KONECT via Petster crawl. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: False, signed: False. Friendship network of cat profiles on a pet social networking site.. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
petster-cat.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 149,700 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
petster-cat- Authors
- Kunegis, Jérôme
- Year
- 2013
- Source paper
- KONECT — The Koblenz Network Collection
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2487788.2488173
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 149,700
- Nodes
- 149,700
- Edges
- 5,449,275
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2011 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/petster-friendships-cat/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 15.8 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
KONECT: the Koblenz network collection
Jérôme Kunegis
Journal Article · The Web Conference · 2013
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
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}
}
@inproceedings{konect,
title = {KONECT -- The {Koblenz} Network Collection},
author = {Kunegis, J\'{e}r\^{o}me},
booktitle = {Proc. Int. Conf. on World Wide Web Companion},
pages = {1343--1350},
year = {2013},
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2488173}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Kunegis, J. (2013). Petster Cat Friendship Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Kunegis, Jérôme. Petster Cat Friendship Network. 2013, doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173.