A lot of news websites offer an API that makes extracting comments easiest. On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 2:23 AM Peter Timusk via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
You can use some softwares like R or SAS or Python to request web pages as data or text files. This may have varying degrees of success. You can put these requests in loops to make multiple requests across says dates of news reporting. Then you have to clean up the data and isolate the comments from inside the text files.
On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:49 PM Wiley, Chris via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hi I've been doing research using online comments on news websites. I was wondering are there any tools to extract the comments outside of copying and pasting?
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