[Air-L] Research inquiry

Noha Nagi noha.a.nagi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 01:42:24 PDT 2014


Thanks Shriram for guidance. I will definitely try these out.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Shriram Venkatraman <
venkatraman.shriram at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Noha,
>
>                                To see if the problem occurs only with
> large data sets... have you tried downloading a page with...lets say a
> couple of hundred posts/comments? This is just to see if you face the same
> issue with smaller data sets...would also suggest that you dont download
> more than a couple of pages at any given time...the download becomes slow
> with too many downloads at one point of time...
>
>
> I dont know if it Is it to do with the browser on which the Ncapture is
> installed as an extension? I use google chrome and its been working fine
> with mine... have you tried re-installing Ncapture? I use a normal Sony
> Vaio - Windows 7 with an Intel i5 processor, 4GB RAM.  I have fetched
> pages/profiles which have had huge volumes of posts and ofcourse comments
> for posts. I am planning on testing it out with an i7 processor, where I
> can have multiple programs at the same time. I have a 40 Mbps connection.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Shriram Venkatraman
>
> www.gsmis.org
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking
> @UCLSocNet
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Shriram,
>>
>> Yes I have the same problem as Patricia.
>>
>> Errors are usually about "high volume of traffic" and one time it gave
>> me "authentication failed".
>>
>> Does it have to do with facebook pages with non-english content?
>> Or is it a problem of internet connection?
>>
>> Please Shriram what kind of pages did you fetch? and what kind of
>> computers did you use (in terms of RAM, internet speed, windows version...)?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Patricia Rossini <patyrossini at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So I also had issues with NCapture. The pages I’m trying to fetch are
>>> heavy - thousands of comments in each post, etc - and NCapture crashes
>>> every time.
>>> I tried both on mac and windows.
>>> Facepager was the alternative I found. Still testing around, but it
>>> works nicely so far.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Patricia G. C. Rossini
>>> Ph.D Student | Department of Social Communication
>>> Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
>>> Associated researcher at the Media and Public Sphere research group
>>> (EME/UFMG)
>>> *patriciarossini at ufmg.br <patriciarossini at ufmg.br>*
>>> +Academia.edu <https://ufmg.academia.edu/PatriciaRossini>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Em 10/09/2014, à(s) 13:19, Shriram Venkatraman <
>>> venkatraman.shriram at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>> Really? What kind of errors? Is it with data capture itself? or is it
>>> with
>>> data import from Ncapture to Nvivo?  I have used it for more than 1000 FB
>>> page downloads and it works perfectly fine...helping me capture comments,
>>> the gender of the commentor, the time/date when the comment was made for
>>> each post, making it possible for other advanced analysis. Please let me
>>> know what kind of an error it generates, will try to see if I can be of
>>> any
>>> assistance.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shriram Venkatraman
>>>
>>> www.gsmis.org
>>> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking
>>> @UCLSocNet
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Shriram !
>>>
>>> I have tried it previously, but it doesn't work always giving me error
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Shriram Venkatraman <
>>> venkatraman.shriram at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> NVIVO - Ncapture is a plugin for a browser which can help you download
>>> Facebook data...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shriram Venkatraman
>>>
>>> www.gsmis.org
>>> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking
>>> @UCLSocNet
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