Hi Patricia, Further to Josh's answer regarding the Rfacebook package, you used to be able to use the `searchFacebook` function to retrieve public status updates that mention a given keyword (and probably by extension hashtags). However, this function is deprecated because Facebook changed their API specs a while ago :(. You could try using the `searchPages` function, which retrieves public pages that mention a given keyword? Or alternatively there are (costly) subscription services available, e.g. Datasift's PYLON initiative. Another possibility you could try is to use the SocialMediaLab R package that I developed with Robert Ackland. You could use it to scrape user comments from a set of public pages, and then create a subset of comments that include the hashtags of interest. This is a bit of a stretch, but the Facebook API is quite limited nowadays. Happy to chat via email if you would like to try this. Cheers, Tim Timothy Graham PhD Candidate School of Social Science University of Queensland Publications - https://uq.academia.edu/TimGraham ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Joshua Rosenberg <jrosen@msu.edu> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 1:24 PM To: Patricia Rossini Cc: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Collect Facebook Hashtags Hi Patricia, The Rfacebook package for R ( https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rfacebook/) is fantastic for scraping data from Facebook - not sure whether it works for specific hashtags. Josh On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Patricia Rossini <patyrossini@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
does anyone know if there’s a way to collect messages on Facebook that use a specific hashtag?
Thank you.
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