I am looking for tools that can be used to extract and mine Facebook data.
i learned about a tool called Netvizz, but many people are saying it was stopped.
Any idea that can help?
facepager and R both worked fine with me.
this is a recent good tutorial on using Rfacebook package in R that I liked : https://bigdataenthusiast.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/mining-facebook-data-using-r-facebook-api/
best
Dear Khalid,
I use NodeXL. See at https://nodexl.codeplex.com/ if it works for you.
Best regards,
It posted in 2016, and I am asking in 2020-did you finally get a convenient way to mine the Facebook data? Please let me know as I am also interested in the same issue. Thanks in advance.
NodeXL is free, open-source and provides easy access to social media network data streams
You may use built-in web scraping templates offered by proxy providers. On the web, you can find a lot of web scraping tools. Here is just a shortlist of them: Octoparse, ScrapeStorm, Apify, etc. But they frequently let clients scrape a limited data volume for free, and a full-fledged version costs considerably enough.
As an alternative to software scrapers, you may use API-based options that give you some advantages.
I’m sure the most important thing is to choose the right tools for scraping to achieve your goals. You can check analyses of services that can be used for mining Facebook data their advantages and shortcomings in the article https://data365.co/blog/how-to-scrape-facebook.
A Facebook scraper refers to a tool that is engineered to mine data from public Facebook pages. Data extracted may include posts, comments, reviews, and enumeration of likes and shares on a post.
Yes, Netvizz has been discontinued due to changes in Facebook's API policies. However, there are still several tools available that can be used to extract and mine Facebook data. Here are some alternatives:
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