1. scraping social platforms
Tools for specific social (media) platforms.
1.1. stand-alone applications
- facepager (wiki repository )
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< | MIT | stand-alone application | Python | >
1.2. programming-frameworks/libraries etc.
1.2.1. R
- YouTubeComments (website repository )
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'This repository contains an R script as well as an interactive Jupyter notebook to demonstrate how to automatically collect, format, and explore YouTube comments, including the emojis they contain. The script and notebook showcase the following steps: Getting access to the YouTube API Extracting comments for a video Formatting the comments & extracting emojis Basic sentiment analysis for text & emojis' Retrieved 07.03.2019 < | Unknown | library | R | >
1.2.2. Python
- TWINT (website repository )
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TWINT (Twitter Intelligence Tool) 'Formerly known as Tweep, Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter’s API.' Retrieved 07.03.2019 < | MIT | library | Python | >
- youtube-transcript-scraper (repository )
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Since YouTube does not provide automatically generated transcripts via its API and normal scraping does not work with YT’s ajaxy interface, this script uses browser automation to click through the YouTube web interface and download the transcript file. < | Unknown | library | Python | >