[Air-L] Facebook scraper for qualitative analysis

[Justin Ho]

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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