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

[Ganiat.Kazeem]

Actually mining data may present research with ethical issues such as right of use of information, privacy, right of access, etc.

So it is much more than skipping past a corporate policy

Although not always the case some policies have a firm rooting in adhering to service level agreements between users and service providers

Facebook being a free platform does not mean that the information about the users activities especially things like posts, comments, likes, etc ( things people will do because they are addressing their comment to a specific person or persons or organisation) should become public. 

In principle, I assume it would be far easier to recruit facebook users who are willing to share their user data in this way first. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of Bernhard Rieder
Sent: 10 November 2020 11:35
To: Brooke Criswell <bcriswell at email.fielding.edu>
Cc: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Text/Data Mining Software Suggestions: for YouTube, Facebook & Instagram?

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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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