Building off our recent exploration of tools for scraping and analyzing Twitter data, and expanding into more general web scrapers, there are a range of tools that allow you to “scrape” or extract data from any website you want. Before you begin scraping, make sure that your target website allows it. You can do this…
Author: Owen Avery
Twitter Data Collection and Analysis Tools
Post contributed by Owen Avery ‘25, Digital Scholarship Assistant Almost 500 million tweets are sent per day, and thanks to Twitter’s fairly generous API (a tool that allows users to look at Twitter data without having to go on the page itself), there are loads of tools available to collect large datasets of tweets using…