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

Patricia Rossini patyrossini at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 07:53:51 PDT 2014


Cristina, please do ;)
I'm also looking/testing a few tools to see what would be better for my research.
Add digital footprints to your list: very nice, but has data limitations :(

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> Em 27/08/2014, às 11:47, Cristina Aced <blogocorp at gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
> 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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>> http://texifter.com
>> 
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