[PyTorch/LanguageModeling/BERT] BookCorpus Data Download - HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[paulhendricks]

Related to Model/Framework(s)
PyTorch/LanguageModeling/BERT

Describe the bug
BookCorpus no longer available from Smashwords.

To Reproduce

The following works perfectly.

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples.git
cd DeepLearningExamples
cd PyTorch/LanguageModeling/BERT
bash scripts/docker/build.sh
bash scripts/docker/launch.sh

However, errors start here:

bash data/create_datasets_from_start.sh

root@dgxstation:/workspace/bert# bash data/create_datasets_from_start.sh
[nltk_data] Downloading package punkt to /root/nltk_data...
[nltk_data]   Unzipping tokenizers/punkt.zip.
Working Directory: /workspace/bert/data
Action: download
Dataset Name: bookscorpus

Directory Structure:
{ 'download': '/workspace/bert/data/download',
  'extracted': '/workspace/bert/data/extracted',
  'formatted': '/workspace/bert/data/formatted_one_article_per_line',
  'hdf5': '/workspace/bert/data/hdf5_lower_case_1_seq_len_512_max_pred_20_masked_lm_prob_0.15_random_seed_12345_dupe_factor_5',
  'sharded': '/workspace/bert/data/sharded_training_shards_256_test_shards_256_fraction_0.2',
  'tfrecord': '/workspace/bert/data/tfrecord_lower_case_1_seq_len_512_max_pred_20_masked_lm_prob_0.15_random_seed_12345_dupe_factor_5'}

0 files had already been saved in /workspace/bert/data/download/bookscorpus.
Failed to open https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/246580/6/latest/0/0/silence.txt
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Failed to open https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/246580/6/latest/0/0/silence.txt
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Failed to open https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/246580/6/latest/0/0/silence.txt
HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
 Gave up to open https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/246580/6/latest/0/0/silence.txt

Expected behavior

BookCorpus should download. This looks similar to:

• Can anyone download all the files in the url list file?  soskek/bookcorpus#24 (comment)
• BookCorpus dataset gone ryankiros/neural-storyteller#17
• Can anyone download all the files in the url list file?  soskek/bookcorpus#24

Looks like https://www.smashwords.com/ has stepped up their anti-web crawling. In fact, after attempting to download my IP address is now blocked from their website. Users should be aware of this before we ask them to download the BookCorpus dataset lest they become banned, unaware of the consequences.

Environment
Please provide at least:

• Git commit: c76880b
• Container version (e.g. pytorch:19.05-py3):

Step 1/15 : ARG FROM_IMAGE_NAME=nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:20.03-py3
Step 2/15 : FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/tritonserver:20.03-py3-clientsdk as trt

• GPUs in the system: (e.g. 8x Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB): 4x Tesla V100, DGX Station
• CUDA driver version (e.g. 418.67): 418.126.02

[swethmandava]

You can just ignore the bookscorpus files that are missing. They dont exist anymore on the web.

#247 #262

[vilmara]

Hi @swethmandava, the script run_pretraining_lamb.sh throws a bunch of errors because it is still referencing these datasets, is there another script to conduct the pre-training process on BERT with available datasets?

[swethmandava]

Could you open another bug with details of your errors? @vilmara

[vilmara]

I have found how to work only with English Wikipedia dataset which is still available, ignoring BookCorpus dataset