A Dark Web Communication object is the smallest communication unit ingested in our dark web dataset, whose type is set to ddw_communication.

Object Attributes

Dark Web Communication objects contains the following attributes:

subject: <string> the primary title of the Dark Web communication object. This may include the title of a forum or blog post, the name of a repository or paste, or the display name of a Telegram channel.
origin_url: <string> the URL pointing to the specific communication entity from which the content was retrieved.
communication_type: <string> the type of the communication object. Available values are: forum_post, web_content, paste and messenger_message for messages on Telegram channels.
timestamp: <integer> the time of communication publication when possible, otherwise time of collection. (UTC timestamp).
update_timestamp: <integer> timestamp of the latest update, as indicated by the source content.(UTC timestamp).
original_id: <string> the unique identifier of the communication entity on its original platform.
content: <string> the original content of the communication entity from its source.
content_translated: <string> the English translation of the communication content.

Relationships

In addition to the previously described attributes, communication objects contain relationships with other objects in our dataset that can be retrieved as explained in the Relationships section.

The following table shows a summary of available relationships.

Relationship	Return object type
author	The Dark Web User Profile of the communication's author.
communication_channel	The Dark Web Communication Channel it belongs to.
conversation_thread	The Dark Web Conversation Thread it belongs to.
service	The Dark Web Service it belongs to.