[Air-L] question about using online comments

[Avner Kantor]

A lot of news websites offer an API that makes extracting comments easiest.

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 2:23 AM Peter Timusk via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> You can use some softwares like R or SAS or Python to request web pages as
> data or text files. This may have varying degrees of success.  You can put
> these requests in loops to make multiple requests across says dates of news
> reporting. Then you have to clean up the data and isolate the comments from
> inside the text files.
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:49 PM Wiley, Chris via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > I've been doing research using online comments on news websites.  I was
> > wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of copying
> > and pasting?
> >
> > Chris Wiley
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