[Air-L] Searching Instagram/Twitter by keyword and narrowing to specific focus

[Kimmo Elo]

Hi!

I have collected several large datasets via the Twitter API, using a
small Python program written around the Tweepy library. Basically, I
have used real-time streaming with pre-set hashtag filters. Works
rather good.

The good thing is that you could add a program-inter filter responsible
for filtering the stream with your second criteria. In other words:

1) Use the Twitter API to collect tweets containing hashtags you are
interested in;

2) Write your Python script so that each collected tweet is checked
against your geographical criteria;

3) Only tweets passing (1) and (2) are printed to the output.

You should, however, keep in mind that not all tweets contain GIS data.
And the location data is not very reliable, either...

HTH,
Kimmo

2019-03-28, 09:46 +0000, Aysenur Ataman wrote:
> Dear Natalie,
> 
> I do not know any tool that would allow you to combine the two
> parameters (hashtag and geographical location) when searching for
> posts on Instagram. I collected data pre Dec 1st 2018 API change via
> Netlytic and am not sure Netlytic' access is still valid but I do
> recommend checking that out.
> 
> Steps I recommend your friend takes:
> 
> 1) It is very crucial to think carefully about what hashtag will be
> useful for your research. Better it is not a BIG hashtag.
> 
> 2) Collect metadata using the hashtag(s) and dates as parameters.
> 
> 3) Use longitude-latitude to detect locations yourself. Will be much
> more reliable that way.
> 
> I played with scraping the number of followers after these steps and
> see if I can come up with a formula to make sense of number of likes
> and comments under each post but then I decided with the bots and
> fake accounts no finding will be reliable. So I gave up… If anyone
> has thoughts and solutions for that I would be glad to hear.
> 
> Best,
> Ayşenur
> 
> _____________________________________________
> Ayşenur Benevento
> Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
> Abdullah Gül University
> On 28 Mar 2019 05:38 +0300, Natalie Rock <drnatalierock at gmail.com>,
> wrote:
> Community:
> 
> This is a question from a colleague. Its out of my wheelhouse but
> probably
> not yours!
> 
> He is interested in tracking dialogue on Twitter and Instagram about
> renewable energy, especially in light of the Green New Deal, but with
> the
> search focused on change makers (i.e. those over a certain number of
> followers).
> 
> He has set up an account with Keyhole but their searches are not
> useful.
> Keyhole doesn't allow you to specify the search by geography; nor
> does it
> allow you to indicate which profiles to search. When he searches
> "renewable
> energy" (keyword and hashtag) he gets hundreds of thousands of
> returns, but
> many are unrelated to his focus. So, do you know a platform that
> enables:
> 
> -searching/scraping by geography
> -specifying searches according to number of followers
> 
> and which is the same or below Keyhole's current price range of
> $370/month?
> 
> Thank you!
> Natalie
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