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

Jen Jack Gieseking jgieseking at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 05:02:13 PDT 2013


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



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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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