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

[Peter Gloviczki]

Hi, everyone,

I'm probably in the minority, but I like doing textual analysis, or
content analysis, by hand. I find that it encourages closer engagement
with the material. Excel works remarkably well for this process.

Peter


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Shulman, Stuart <stu at texifter.com> wrote:
> http://discovertext.com/ can do the job
>
> http://discovertext.com/aboutdt/media.aspx#DiscoverTextVideo/5/ is a demo
> video
>
> https://discovertext.com/registration.aspx is the free registration page,
> connect with Facebook to archive public FB content and metadata
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:32 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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