[Air-L] Monitoring tags on Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest etc

Alex Leavitt alexleavitt at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 19:47:59 PDT 2013


You can query the API, but you only get the latest 1000 notes (really a
bummer...).

Alexander Leavitt
PhD Student
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Jen Jack Gieseking <jgieseking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Stuart.
>
> And beyond GNIP / 30 days? Any other ideas? Thanks, all!
> JJG
>
>
>
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> New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow
> Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College
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>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes. Gnip serves that data and you can experiment with collecting it via
>> the DiscoverText 30-day free trial:
>>
>> https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial
>>
>> We provide 1000 gratis 'credits' where each item and the associated
>> metadata count together as one spent credit. You can run a 1000-item pilot
>> test of the Gnip Tumblr stream, or spread your credits across the fire hose
>> for Twitter, Disqus & WordPress.
>>
>> This is sample metadata from a Tumblr item using a Power Track operator
>> to exclude reblogs, but if you don't include the rule, you get all the
>> reblogs and you can use the "Sifter" engine to deduplicate and cluster
>> around reblogging inside of DiscoverText.
>>
>> actor id:   tag:gnip.tumblr.com:2012:blog/29604921
>>   id:   tag:gnip.tumblr.com:2012
>> :post/60837734713/update/9dc81eb1beb4540312e1b20d251b98b7ff0cdcf2d0442b176ca40c5739a49448
>>   link:
>> http://crash--test.tumblr.com/post/60837734713/ferrari-430-scuderia-by-lyon1845
>>   note count:   40
>>   object type:   photo-album
>>   posted time:   9/10/2013 2:41:22 PM
>>   rule match:   -is:reblog flickr
>>   tag:   430
>>   tag:   cars
>>   tag:   F430
>>   tag:   Ferrari
>>   tag:   Scuderia
>>   target display name:   crash--test
>>   target link:   http://crash--test.tumblr.com/
>>   target object type:   blog
>>   tumblrreblogkey:   4VCo4kLi
>>   tumblrtype:   photo
>>   url:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/60710285@N05/9691950494/in/photostream/
>> Show top meta  verb:       update
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Jen Jack Gieseking <jgieseking at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> To add to this convo, has anyone been able to grab the notes per post
>>> (reblogs, comments, likes) associated with a specific hashtag on Tumblr?
>>> I'm guessing not given the previous answer but one never knows.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jen Jack Gieseking, Ph.D.
>>> New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow
>>> Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College
>>> jgieseking at gmail.com
>>> www.jgieseking.org
>>> www.spatiallyinclined.org
>>> @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > There is currently no way to track ALL tags on Tumblr unless you want
>>> to
>>> > shell out money for full access to GNIP (and even then you have to
>>> specify
>>> > terms and get the data moving from the current data forward; you have
>>> to
>>> > pay extra for historical data). Via the API, you can get posts per
>>> tag, and
>>> > if you have some programming experience, you could set up a cron job to
>>> > continually run through the API to collect data over a long period of
>>> time.
>>> >
>>> > I'm not familiar with Pinterest or Instagram's APIs (I assume they
>>> operate
>>> > similarly), but you might check out
>>> > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~sbakhshi/gilbert.chi13.pinterest.pdf to see
>>> how
>>> > they collected data.
>>> >
>>> > As far as cross-network, there is no service (to my knowledge) that
>>> allows
>>> > you to do this.
>>> >
>>> > Alexander Leavitt
>>> > PhD Student
>>> > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
>>> > http://alexleavitt.com
>>> > Twitter: @alexleavitt
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Shulman, Stuart <stu at texifter.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook are part of the DiscoverText capability:
>>> > > http://www.discovertext.com/import.html
>>> > >
>>> > > We support Gnip's "Power Track" operators for four streams of data:
>>> > > http://www.discovertext.com/Gnip.html
>>> > >
>>> > > There is a 30-day free trial with access to Facebook, Twitter,
>>> WordPress,
>>> > > Tumblr, and Disqus:
>>> > > https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrial
>>> > >
>>> > > This is an example of how a sophisticated research group uses DT &
>>> Gnip:
>>> > > http://vimeo.com/55175059
>>> > >
>>> > > Stu
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Deller, Ruth A <
>>> R.A.Deller at shu.ac.uk
>>> > > >wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Hi all
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Does anyone know of an easy way of keeping track of tags over time
>>> in
>>> > > > Tumblr, Pinterest or Instagram. I'm especially interested in
>>> numbers of
>>> > > > tags over time and particular spikes in their popularity, and, if
>>> > > possible,
>>> > > > how manh unique users are associated with them and other tags often
>>> > used
>>> > > in
>>> > > > conjunction.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Also, is there any way you know of of being able to see how often
>>> > things
>>> > > > have been crossposted across different social media platforms (ibc
>>> > > flickr,
>>> > > > twitter, facebook etc)?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Ruth
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>>
>> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
>> people.umass.edu/stu
>>
>> Editor Emeritus, JITP
>> jitp.net <http://www.jitp.net>
>>
>> Director, QDAP-UMass
>> umass.edu/qdap <http://www.umass.edu/qdap>
>>
>> Founder and CEO, Texifter
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>>
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