[Air-L] tools to extract data from Facebook public pages and open groups

[Stuart Shulman]

there are a few methods to scale qualitative research...collecting public
FB comments in very large numbers and then random sampling them is a
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, jose marichal <marichal at callutheran.edu>wrote:

> Hi Tim (and all),
>
> I did a content analysis of political Facebook groups and am afraid to
> admit that I used a simple cut and paste... if it's a qualitative analysis
> you're doing, it's only practical to analyze a few hundred cases anyway.
>
> Good luck,
> Jose
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Hale, Timothy M. <TMHALE at partners.org
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am looking for a tool that will extract content from Facebook public
> > Pages and open Groups. I am not interested in collecting user profile
> data
> > or conducting any type of network analysis - although tools that can
> > collect additional data that fits my needs might work. Ideally, I am
> > looking for a tool that can collect from specified Pages/Groups the
> entire
> > set of comments and posts to the Page/Group, and if possible, "Likes" and
> > other forms of user activity.
> >
> > I am considering a research project analyzing content of Pages and Groups
> > and would like an alternative to creating PDFs and manually entering
> data.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > Tim
> >
> >
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