[Air-L] Text/Data Mining Software Suggestions: for YouTube, Facebook & Instagram?

[Brooke Criswell]

I hope this helps guide you as well.

https://research.fb.com/data/

Please check out this link. You can apply for different access to data
based on your research topic. Or you can submit a proposal as an academic.



On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 10:22 AM Brooke Criswell <bcriswell at email.fielding.edu>
wrote:

> I hope this helps guide you as well.
>
> https://research.fb.com/data/
>
> Please check out this link. You can apply for different access to data
> based on your research topic. Or you can submit a proposal as an academic.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 9:53 AM Brooke Criswell <
> bcriswell at email.fielding.edu> wrote:
>
>> My apologies. I was just passing along what I have been told because of
>> privacy settings within Facebook and Instagram. I have been told
>> specifically by Facebook there is no "legal" way to scrape comments or
>> different things like that. Now likes and shares etc, I have no idea. So I
>> was just passing that along. I am by no means an expert in all of the ways
>> and was not aware of other ways like Facepager. I just know Facebook is
>> very strict with their data especially because of the privacy policy and
>> settings people can individually make. I have been told Facebook closed off
>> their API except for when working in collaborations or specifically
>> accepted to get data from their research team.
>>
>> Very sorry if I gave wrong information. This is just what I have learned
>> and been told and would never want anyone to get into trouble or collect
>> items they weren't technically supposed to.
>>
>> Best of luck and if you do find anything please share!
>>
>> Take care all.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 5:35 AM Bernhard Rieder <berno.rieder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> I would like to disagree with Brooke here. Facebook data can still be
>>> accessed through non-scraping based API-access, most importantly the
>>> awesome Facepager.
>>>
>>> For Instagram, scraping is indeed the go-to technique (instaloader works
>>> very well) and I would like to defend the idea that ToS should not hinder
>>> researchers if the social relevance of the topic warrants it. Adhering to
>>> corporate policy is not the gold standard for what independent research
>>> should strive for, in my view. Proposing topics to people at Facebook may
>>> be a strategy for certain topics, but for anything that does not fit within
>>> the narrow interests of the platform, this will most likely go nowhere.
>>>
>>> For YouTube, you can also check out the YouTube Data Tools that I have
>>> been maintaining here: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>>
>>> > On 10 Nov 2020, at 05:22, Brooke Criswell via Air-L <
>>> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Facebook and Instagram are strict and according to terms and conditions
>>> > they don't allow any data scraping.
>>> >
>>> > Best try is to propose your study to a researcher at Facebook
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 2:21 AM Alexandre Leroux <alleroux at ulb.ac.be>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Facepager for FB and YT it has a user interface and a decent
>>> documentation.
>>> >>
>>> >> There are scrappers for instagram but those don't comply with the
>>> >> platform terms of use and afaik are terminal only.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 6/11/20 14:59, Cristina Migliaccio wrote:
>>> >>> Dear Colleagues,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Advance apologies if this question has been addressed (as I am
>>> certain it
>>> >>> has been) in some previous forum/email---does an easy to use
>>> text/data
>>> >>> mining software/platform exist that works across these 3 social media
>>> >>> platforms: YouTube, Facebook & Instagram?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would like to collect data on alphabetic features but also
>>> >> paralinguistic
>>> >>> features such as likes, shares, etc.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Any suggestions whatsoever for a text/data mining beginner would be
>>> >> greatly
>>> >>> appreciated (videos, lectures to this end also appreciated!)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Warm thanks-
>>> >>> Cristina Migliaccio
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>>> >> --
>>> >> Alexandre Leroux
>>> >> Ph.D candidate
>>> >> Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migrations and Equality
>>> (GERME)
>>> >> Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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