[Air-L] Facebook scraper for qualitative analysis

[Radhika G]

Hi all -

picking up on this really late (was finishing up another big writing
project and now returning to this issue)- sorry - did anyway find any
solutions for this - particularly in Python?
___
Radhika Gajjala
Co-editor of Ada: Journal of Gender and New Media (adanewmedia.org)

Professor,
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program

Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
http://www.radhikagajjala.org


On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:08 PM Justin Ho <Justin.Ho at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am afraid the above suggestions that require an access token (eg the R
> and Python scripts) will not work anymore after the recent API changes. To
> use them, you need to create an App and pass the App Review. I am not sure
> if it would be possible for R and Python scripts.
>
> Best regards,
> Justin
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 15:37, S.H. Yu <yu.shih.hsuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good Day Alexandra,
> >
> > this python code (a GitHub site
> > <https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper>) had helped a
> > year ago, but am not fully sure if it runs after many FB API updates;
> this
> > code might not export the content of comment (and I have to double-check
> > some relevant historical threads regarding this in this mailing list).
> What
> > is needed here is to set up a facebook developer app, as well as to have
> > the target facebook group ID, then to create an "app_secret" to iterate
> the
> > call without pause. For the desired timeframe, the code specifies too for
> > you to just fill in. Just drop me a line and I can send you the python
> code
> > we have modified.
> >
> > best regards,
> > Shih-Hsuan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 18 July 2018 at 07:39, Paolo Eusebi <paoloeusebi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Alexandra,
> > > I don't know if it helps but you can take a look at this:
> > > http://thinktostart.com/analyzing-facebook-with-r/.
> > > R can be used also for text analysis and networks.
> > > Best, Paolo.
> > >
> > >
> > > Il lun 16 lug 2018, 19:17 Alexandra Bahary <alexandra.bahary at gmail.com
> >
> > ha
> > > scritto:
> > >
> > > > Hi to all,
> > > >
> > > > I've been trying to import data form a public Facebook group as
> > dataset,
> > > > mainly for qualitative analysis. The group includes substantial
> amounts
> > > of
> > > > data with thousands of users. I would need to extract data (posts and
> > > > comments) for at least a two months period. I was previously using a
> > > NVivo
> > > > extension (NCapture) to do so, but Facebook recently changes its API,
> > > which
> > > > implies restrictions for dataset import. Tools such as Netvizz don't
> > seem
> > > > to work at the moment as well.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if you knew about other ways or ressources to make
> > such a
> > > > gathering possible.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Alexandra
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