Research Facebook tools

grenwi commented 3 years ago

Similar to the Twitter Wikipage do a systematic research on Tools for Facebook data collection:

Tools should give users with (limited) programming skills access to API data or scraping from the platform page
Tools should be actively maintained to be included in the list
Tools should be described comprehensively for a target user group of communication / social scientists (i.e. experienced users of technical solutions but usually background but not computer engineers)

Suggested tools:

Facepager: https://github.com/strohne/Facepager
facebook-scraper: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper

For descriptions think of useful ways to systematize the tool descriptions. For instance the categories summarizing functionalities of different software tools as described in the table on the Twitter Wikipage

grenwi commented 3 years ago

Tools can be GUI-based, or R packages or python libraries or else
if possible, install and test the tools before writing the description

grenwi commented 3 years ago

Also add a Section for CrowdTangle into the FB page:

brief description what CT is, what data it provides and how scholars can get access

FlxVctr commented 3 years ago

Can we close https://github.com/Leibniz-HBI/Social-Media-Observatory/issues/24 then?

FlxVctr commented 3 years ago

Also, there are already a few collected by Mani here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vZ6jOWoxcyockeNMDE5wbEcx_kSoSmkIqJ8olKyJfq0/edit#gid=0

FlxVctr commented 3 years ago

Transferring to main repo. Possibly a duplicate. Please check for an older issue with the same topic and close one of both.

Leibniz-HBI / Social-Media-Observatory

Research Facebook tools #74