An annoying loss, to be sure, but Facebook still allows API downloads of posts + metadata to public pages and public comments left on them. Unlike with Twitter, there are no time limits on how far back you can go, so you can pull a page's entire history going back years. I've developed a Python script to do this which is available here: https://github.com/dfreelon/fb_scrape_public I haven't tested this extensively but folks have been asking me about it so I thought I'd throw it up. It's compatible with Facebook's recent API migration. On 6/11/2015 6:44 AM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
One thing worth noting: Facebook just changed its API recently. The fulltext search of public comments is gone.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Evelina Liliequist < evelina.liliequist@umu.se> wrote:
Hi!
You could perhaps try Netvizz if you want to analyze data from Facebook groups. I used it in combination with Gephi to make visual graphs of interactions in FB-groups.
Evelina Liliequist
Postgraduate student Ethnology, Digital humanities Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University
Umeå University SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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