Hi Cristina, Prof. Deen Freelon at American University, see here, <http://dfreelon.org/external-resources/#methods> used to have a free tool called "F-grab" which extracted Facebook data. I cannot seem to find a link to it now, but you might want to contact him <dfreelon@gmail.com>, it worked really well. Good luck! Tijana On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:18 AM, JM Martín <jmmartincorvillo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Cristina!
If you are trying to extract information from social networks, first thing you should know is that Facebook is not so easy to harvest as Twitter is, due to a question of software. But in case you want to collect communications, I have been using Topsy (which is free and easy to use) in order to extract full public communications in social networks. But, as you mention, you may experience problems due to Facebook's API.
Good luck!
*José Manuel Martín* Phd in Applied Linguistics Universitat de Valencia UVEG
2014-08-27 9:41 GMT+02:00 Cristina Aced <blogocorp@gmail.com>:
Hello all,
I am looking for software that facilitates the extraction of content of Facebook pages. I am doing a research about how a sample of companies are using blogs, Twitter and Facebook. I want to apply content analysis but previously I need to extract the content.
I am using R and the software OutWit Hub Pro to scrape the data on blogs and Twitter, but they are not working properly with Facebook (I think it is due to some restrictions of Facebook's API).
Any other suggestions?
Many thanks!
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