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

[JM Martín]

Hi Cristina!

If you are trying to extract information from social networks, first thing
you should know is that Facebook is not so easy to harvest as Twitter is,
due to a question of software. But in case you want to collect
communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in
order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you
mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API.

Good luck!

*José Manuel Martín*
Phd in Applied Linguistics
Universitat de Valencia UVEG




2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced <blogocorp at gmail.com>:

> 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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