Yes, Deen! Our research group has turned to Python (could have been R, Maurice, but we chose Python for now) to collect data on Twitter and we are now trying to learn how to do use it for Facebook. Not easy... we will definitely check out your code, many thanks for sharing! However, even Python and R scraping face the issues pointed out by Bernhard Rieder, don't they? I mean, we are still dealing with incomplete datasets, which we can only speculate about. Right? Have you followed his suggestion, that is, have you compared retrieved data using Python, R, Netvizz ...? Marisa On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Deen Freelon <dfreelon@gmail.com> wrote:
If you're not afraid of a little Python, here's another data collection alternative (written by yours truly): https://github.com/dfreelon/fb _scrape_public
Just two lines of code and you're off to the races, plus it collects all the new reactions ("haha," "love," etc) and is robust to network errors. It's also free, which helps. /DEEN
On 4/19/2017 1:39 PM, Fabio Gouveia wrote:
Hi,
I´ve been using Facepager for some time and I love it. It really requires a little bit of knowledge on how to make the calls, but it´s really a good tool to invest time in. Some issues on the Mac version and a little bit of knowledge on the different versions of the API to get reactions downloaded right. I do agree with Bernhard that working with facebook data, due to the lack of transparency, it´s really complicated.
best,
Fábio C Gouveia Scientrometrics and Altmetrics Researcher Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Brazil fgouveiafiocruz@gmail.com
2017-04-19 14:04 GMT-03:00 Patricia Rossini <patyrossini@gmail.com>:
Hi,
I would strongly advise against using NVivo to scrape Facebook data - I have seen the same issues that Marisa has identified - missing data, problems to import. Moreover, the NCapture tool only talks to NVivo, so you’re not ‘free' to analyze the data elsewhere. People tend to have good results with Netvizz. I use Facepager, which is an open source software created by and for academics. It requires a little knowledge on the APIs to make the right calls, but works like a charm and exports results to CSV.
best,
Patricia Rossini Postdoctoral researcher | School of Information Studies Syracuse University www.patriciarossini.com <http://www.patriciarossini.com/>
Em 19 de abr de 2017, à(s) 12:43, Marisa von Bülow <
marisavonbulow@gmail.com> escreveu:
Our research group at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) has used NVivo/NCapture to capture and analyze data of Facebook pages, but recently has bumped into two serious issues:
a) the dataset won't open in NVivo (when we asked for help, NVivo personnel said this happened because of date problems, which we have not been able to solve). We just switched to Netvizz and then opened the dataset on NVivo to do content analysis of posts. b) we have noticed differences in the amount of information gathered by NCapture in comparison with Netvizz. There are chunks of periods in which posts have not been collected by NCapture (and we confirmed that the data is there), which has surprised us, because we had not previously had this problem.
I am happy to talk to you about these and other issues.
Marisa
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:51 AM, mona arslan <mona_arslan@hotmail.com> wrote:
I would be very happy to talk to anyone who has managed to capture
content from facebook page for NVIVO. Facebook pages as a data set specifically is my interest( not groups or conversation and not as a PDF, but as a dataset)
Many thanks in advance!
Mona Arslan,
Teacher Assistant (AASTM) and PhD Candidate (Digital Media) Founder of The Egyptian Social Media Initiative @monarslan
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