[Air-L] archiving entire blogs

[Wendy Christensen]

Hi All,

I used SiteSucker to download entire blogs (http://www.sitesucker.us/home.html). It worked very well for both blogspot and wordpress blogs, but excess files had to be cleaned up and deleted before analysis.

I ran into issues trying to find content analysis software that would allow me to code html files. If anyone has suggestions for software for qualitative analysis of websites and/or downloaded html files, I'd love to hear about it!

Best, Wendy


Wendy M. Christensen, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bowdoin College
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On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Jarkko Moilanen wrote:

hi,

Quoting Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com<mailto:stuart.shulman at gmail.com>>:

WORDPRESS has a feature for this:

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/xml-import-export/

If it is a WORDPRESS blog, you can ask the owner to create a bulk export in
XML.


If you are archiving blog that you don't have access to export functions, I would use 'wget'. It contains features to get everything, no matter how deep the structure is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget

/Jarkko


Better still is the new offering from GNIP:

http://blog.gnip.com/gnip-and-automattic-make-whole-new-universe-of-data-available/

The future is bright for getting big collections.

~Stu

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:31 PM, C Sosnowy <c_sosnowy at yahoo.com> wrote:

I would like to be able to archive an entire blog (and ideally be able to
download it) for analysis. I've looked at WebCite and Zotero but neither
seem to have this capability. Does anyone know of another way?


Collette Sosnowy
M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental Psychology Program
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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