Notes on Scaling Social Media Data Collection | DAIR
Discovered: Jun 30, 2024 15:35 Notes on Scaling Social Media Data Collection ¦ DAIR <- includes python code for twitter, facebook and talks about APIs and scraping! <– QUOTE: This is an informal guide outlining how I scaled the task of downloading data from social media sites. Social media companies have little incentive to make this process easy, instead opting to make public-interest research on their platforms difficult or impossible to conduct, so I’m writing up my notes in the hopes that it might be useful to one of the many researchers or journalists out there reinventing this particular wheel.