[Air-L] Have Instagram data

Thu Nov 16 19:42:59 PST 2017

For long term benefits, open source and for free learn R. In the short term
it won't help you because the learning curve it quite steep. But, if you
like to code and tinker with data in general and want to be productive and
independent of commercial enterprises, R is the way to go. Sorry if this
almost sounds like a sales pitch. But as I said, it's for free and open
source.
For scraping rvest is the main package.
Other relevant packages for internet-research goals can be found here:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/WebTechnologies.html

hope this helps
Maurice

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aysenur Ataman <
aataman at gradcenter.cuny.edu> wrote:

> I’m not sure what is it you are interested in blogs and sites but with
> Netlytic, I believe you can scrape comments written under blog post. You
> may want to play with it to see.
>
> Best,
> Aysenur
>
>
> > On Nov 15, 2017, at 10:34 AM, bartira lins <bartiralins at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Aysenur,
> >
> > Thanks too for Sharring the Netlytic. Im interested in comments about
> politics. Im researching electoral behavior in Brazil and Instagram is
> growing fastly here.
> >
> > Do you have a indication for blogs and sites?
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Bartira Lins
> > +55 (81) 98991.5062
> >
> >> Em 15 de nov de 2017, às 15:48, Aysenur Ataman <
> aataman at gradcenter.cuny.edu> escreveu:
> >>
> >> Dear Anne,
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing the scraping tool! Instagram’s API change in 2016
> was an unfortunate event for many researchers, in my opinion. I have
> struggled finding a work around for a very long time.
> >>
> >> Dear Bartira,
> >> I used Netlytic <https://netlytic.org/> .It is not as robust as the
> method Anne suggested because I don’t know how do they do the scraping and
> if there is anything left out. There is a bit of a learning curve and
> effort you need to put to clean csv file it gives. What kind of data are
> you interested in? If you want to download photos please do write back. I
> have used medialinks Netlytic gave me to scrape photos with a script.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------------------
> >> Ayşenur Ataman
> >>
> >> Ph.D. Candidate in Developmental Psychology
> >> The Graduate Center, City University of New York
> >>
> >> Research Associate with Children’s Environment Research Group<
> http://cergnyc.org/>
> >>
> >> www.aysenurataman.com<http://www.aysenurataman.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 15, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Anne Helmond <anne at digitalmethods.net<
> mailto:anne at digitalmethods.net>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Bartira,
> >>
> >> I recently used the following Instagram tool/scraper: https://github.
> >> com/rarcega/instagram-scraper
> >> It allows for scraping photos for a single or multiple users, but also
> for
> >> hashtags. You can also retrieve metadata such as comments. It requires a
> >> bit of a technical setup to use, so if you are unfamiliar with running
> >> scripts you might need to ask someone for help. In general these are the
> >> installation instructions (which I tested and worked and which my
> students
> >> successfully replicated):
> >>
> >> 1. Install pip https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
> >> 2. Install Python 2.7x https://www.python.org/do
> >> wnloads/release/python-2713/
> >> 3. Then follow install instructions on https://github.com/rarcega/
> >> instagram-scraper <https://github.com/rarcega/instagram-scraper>
> >> 4. If you follow the steps on the page it should work
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Anne Helmond
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture
> >> University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT  Amsterdam | The
> >> Netherlands
> >> http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ |
> >> @silvertje
> >>
> >> Highlighted publication:
> >>
> >> Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data
> >> Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2).
> doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.
> >>
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> >> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:46:35 +0000
> >> From: bartira lins <bartiralins at hotmail.com<mailto:
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> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Il Will need to take data from Instagram and blogs for my research. I
> use
> >> nodexl, tags, R, but i dont know how to take th?se data.
> >> Some idea?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> Bartira Lins
> >> Doctoral student - Political Science
> >> UFPE
> >>
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