Dominique, Note that harvesting data in case of viral information is more complicated because of limitations (how much information can you basically mine) which exist in different APIs. Karine Karine Nahon/Author of Going Viral/Best Information Science Book Award and Outstanding Academic Title/eKarine.org Associate Professor/Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) / University of Washington On 26/9/16, 08:11, "Air-L on behalf of Maurice Vergeer" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of m.vergeer@maw.ru.nl> wrote: Dear Dominique, please look at this site (http://socialmediadata.wikidot.com/) for an extended list of social media tools. Many are stand alone applications and some are packages within another software environment. Some focus on tweets, while others on networks. Depending what you need one or the other might serve your need. Because your project seems issue related, a tool using the search API for hashtag sampling seems most appropriate. I use yourtwapperkeeper (standalone on a linux machine) and streamR in R (windows Mac or Linux). The benefit of using a package in R is that R you can use R subsequently for further analysis. But it's a steep learning curve, but definitely pays off in the long run. HTH Maurice On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 1:37 AM, dominique salas < dominique.a.salas@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m new to the listserv but look forward to learning in this great > community. I was recommended to join the listserv to ask what might be the > most efficient Twitter scraper/bot set-up as of late. I am trying to track > circulated and augmented arguments online, but since many are viral and > also are picked up by various news networks, getting a dataset is > elementary and crucial. > > I look forward to hearing back, even if you anticipate problems or issues > I might run into. > > > Dominique Salas, MFA > PhD candidate in Latin American Studies, Tulane University > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/