Dear all, balancing ethics, science and tos is complex and from my point of view has to be evaluated with regard to each specific case. The different scientific ethics guidelines and local laws are quite helpful. For example, in Germany, there are very specific regulations for science in the GDPR and in the copyright law. Further guidelines are published by the so called RatSWD. The platforms' terms allow some but not all use cases. On this basis, for example, compiling a textmining corpus for the analysis of language features is justified in many cases. From my experience, the universities' data protection officers are very helpful with setting up the needed protocols to balance privacy and research interests. Anyway, I don't know enough about the situation in different countries to give advice. That being said, if webscraping is an option, you will find some basic Instagram presets in the wiki of Facepager (Presets -> Load a preset). Best regards Jakob Am 10.11.2020 um 12:35 schrieb Bernhard Rieder:
Dear colleagues,
I would like to disagree with Brooke here. Facebook data can still be accessed through non-scraping based API-access, most importantly the awesome Facepager.
For Instagram, scraping is indeed the go-to technique (instaloader works very well) and I would like to defend the idea that ToS should not hinder researchers if the social relevance of the topic warrants it. Adhering to corporate policy is not the gold standard for what independent research should strive for, in my view. Proposing topics to people at Facebook may be a strategy for certain topics, but for anything that does not fit within the narrow interests of the platform, this will most likely go nowhere.
For YouTube, you can also check out the YouTube Data Tools that I have been maintaining here: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
All the best, Bernhard
On 10 Nov 2020, at 05:22, Brooke Criswell via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Facebook and Instagram are strict and according to terms and conditions they don't allow any data scraping.
Best try is to propose your study to a researcher at Facebook
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 2:21 AM Alexandre Leroux <alleroux@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
Facepager for FB and YT it has a user interface and a decent documentation.
There are scrappers for instagram but those don't comply with the platform terms of use and afaik are terminal only.
On 6/11/20 14:59, Cristina Migliaccio wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Advance apologies if this question has been addressed (as I am certain it has been) in some previous forum/email---does an easy to use text/data mining software/platform exist that works across these 3 social media platforms: YouTube, Facebook & Instagram?
I would like to collect data on alphabetic features but also paralinguistic features such as likes, shares, etc.
Any suggestions whatsoever for a text/data mining beginner would be greatly appreciated (videos, lectures to this end also appreciated!)
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