[Air-L] question about using online comments

[Deena Abul-Fottouh]

   Hi,

   This tutorial video might be useful

   [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Yh_4oE-Fs
   [2]Web Scrape Text from ANY Website - Web Scraping in R (Part 1)
   Web Scraping in R is super easy and useful, and in this video I scrape
   movies from IMDb into a data frame in R using the rvest library and
   then export the data frame as a csv, all in a few lines of code. This
   method works across many sites -- typically those that show static
   content -- such as Yelp, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google, and more. Part 2
   ...
   www.youtube.com
   Best,
   Deena

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   From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Avner Kantor
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   Sent: May 4, 2023 5:20 AM
   To: Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
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   Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about using online comments

   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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