[Air-L] Instagram Posts and Discussion Data Gathering Tool

[Muira McCammon]

Hi, all,

I would just like to say that I have found Documenting the Now
<https://www.docnow.io>'s work and white papers on archival ethics to be
very helpful over the years in my own research.  Though an election is not
 the same as a social movement, it may be worth consulting Doc Now's "Ethical
Considerations for Archiving Social Media Content Generated by
Contemporary:  <https://www.docnow.io/docs/docnow-whitepaper-2018.pdf>Social
Movements: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations
<https://www.docnow.io/docs/docnow-whitepaper-2018.pdf>."

On the matter of how to actually capture Insta stuff, you (and/or your
student) may want to play around with Webrecorder. This project
<https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/excellences-perfections-preserving-social-media-with-webrecorder-rhizome/WQJSTPJVh-JgJw?hl=en>which
relied in part on Webrecorder (from a little bit ago) may still be of
interest. Webrecorder has recently undergone a name change and is now
called Conifer, but this link
<https://conifer.rhizome.org/despens/amalia-ulman-excellences--perfections>speaks
to some of the ups and downs of using it. Full disclosure, I've primarily
used Webrecorder/Conifer for Twitter archival work, but if you're working
on a desktop, you may find it useful esp if you're trying to get some video
content.

Best,
Muira

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On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 10:31 AM Evelina Liliequist <
evelina.liliequist at umu.se> wrote:

> In addition to this discussion, does anyone have any ethical
> guidance/thoughts to share about gathering Instagram post? More
> specifically data Collection from open accounts applying a specific hashtag.
>
> Sorry for high jacking, but I suspect considering ethical matters might be
> needed for your student too...
>
> Best regards,
> Evelina
> ________________________________
> Från: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> för Cesar Giovanni Crisosto
> <cesar.crisosto at sp.unipi.it>
> Skickat: den 3 september 2020 15:47:47
> Till: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Ämne: Re: [Air-L] Instagram Posts and Discussion Data Gathering Tool
>
> I have always used https://instaloader.github.io/index.html and it works
> perfectly.
>
> Good luck,
>
> ---
> Cesar Giovanni Crisosto, Ph.D
> Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
> Università di Pisa
>
> Il 02.09.2020 22:28 Vergeer, M.R.M. (Maurice) ha scritto:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I used Instagram scraper some time ago, worked like a charm:
> > https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper
> >
> > best
> > Maurice
> >
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> > Onderwerp: [Air-L] Instagram Posts and Discussion Data Gathering Tool
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > can you recommend a data collection tool that is more dynamic than
> > rss.app? One of my graduate students wants to capture images, videos,
> > and discussions on two separate accounts during the fall election
> > season.
> >
> > I would very much appreciate any advice you can give,
> > DeNel
> >
> > DeNel Rehberg Sedo, PhD (she/her)
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> > dr_rehberg_sedo on Twitter
> > denelrehbergsedo.info
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*Muira McCammon*

*Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
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Translation Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2016) A bit
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