[Air-L] Facebook scraper for qualitative analysis

[S.H. Yu]

Hi there,

so you can check it out here
<https://github.com/schuen/facebook-page-post-scraper/tree/patch-1> in the
/branch/modified, there I have uploaded the one I have used (but not sure
it still runs.)

best,
Shuen

On 18 July 2018 at 16:37, 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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