[Air-L] social media analysis

[Deen Freelon]

An annoying loss, to be sure, but Facebook still allows API downloads of 
posts + metadata to public pages and public comments left on them. 
Unlike with Twitter, there are no time limits on how far back you can 
go, so you can pull a page's entire history going back years. I've 
developed a Python script to do this which is available here:

https://github.com/dfreelon/fb_scrape_public

I haven't tested this extensively but folks have been asking me about it 
so I thought I'd throw it up. It's compatible with Facebook's recent API 
migration.

On 6/11/2015 6:44 AM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
> One thing worth noting: Facebook just changed its API recently. The
> fulltext search of public comments is gone.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Evelina Liliequist <
> evelina.liliequist at umu.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> You could perhaps try Netvizz if you want to analyze data from Facebook
>> groups. I used it in combination with Gephi to make visual graphs of
>> interactions in FB-groups.
>>
>> Evelina Liliequist
>>
>> Postgraduate student Ethnology, Digital humanities
>> Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University
>>
>> Umeå University
>> SE-901 87 Umeå
>> Sweden
>>
>> Tel: +46 90 7866305
>> Email: evelina.liliequist at umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist at umu.se>
>>
>> 11 jun 2015 kl. 08:49 skrev chamil rathnayake <chamilvr at gmail.com<mailto:
>> chamilvr at gmail.com>>:
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Deen Freelon
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