[Air-L] Software to extract content of Facebook & Twitter

Cristina Aced blogocorp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 07:47:50 PDT 2014


Many thanks for all your messages and suggestions. I'm now checking all the
messages. I'll test the tools you have proposed and I promise to share
which is the best option to extract these data from Facebook!

Cristina Aced


2014-08-27 12:52 GMT+02:00 Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com>:

> DiscoverText has been connected to the Facebook Open Graph API and the
> Twitter Search API since 2010. Here are some reasons to test it for
> collecting Facebook or other social and related non-social data:
>
> - there is nothing to install - use it in a browser
> - pull data in from a variety of sources, including SurveyMonkey directly
> via an API
> - keystroke human coding is fast and connects to other human coders via a
> peer network
> - measurement tools developed open source in 2007 for inter-rater
> reliability and adjudication of coder disagreement (CAT)
> - search, filtering, and bucketing capabilities
> - automated duplicate detection and near duplicate clustering
> - machine learning classifiers that help sift out irrelevant data to
> 'clean' social data sets
> - patent pending "CoderRank" technology for enhanced machine-learning
> - free for the first 30 days
> https://www.discovertext.com/Home/TrialRegistration
>
> We are also in the last week of the final drawing to win 1,000,000
> historical Tweets and a year's worth of Enterprise grade software worth
> more than $15,000. It takes about five minutes to beta test the free
> historical Twitter estimator "Sifter" (http://sifter.texifter.com) and
> then enter: http://bit.ly/1pGuUJo.
>
> These are high-grade tools for text and metadata developed in a research
> lab specifically to improve measurement.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Cristina Aced <blogocorp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of
>> Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are
>> using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but
>> previously I need to extract the content.
>>
>> I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs
>> and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it
>> is
>> due to some restrictions of Facebook's API).
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> *Cristina Aced *
>>
>> PhD Candidate
>> Doctoral Programme in Knowledge and Information Society
>> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
>> | caced at uoc.edu
>> www.cristinaaced.com/blog | Twitter: @blogocorp
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>
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>
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>
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