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Gephi forums •Extracting data from Facebook Fan/ Brand Pages
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Extracting data from Facebook Fan/ Brand Pages

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:33
by kobestarr
Hey guys!

I am new to Gephi and from what I have seen I am ultra excited about getting to use this!

I am a Masters Student and am currently working on a Project on Social Network analysis.

I am particularly looking forward to extracting data from Facebook.

I know that Netvizz is the "goto" app for Facebook users and groups. Can it be used, however, for Facebook Brand pages for charities or whatever? I know facebook is making a push to reduce and almost depricate the profile of groups in favour of the pages?

Thanks in advance!!

K*

Re: Extracting data from Facebook Fan/ Brand Pages

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 20:29
by WeezyF
I've been trying to figure out this very same thing. What I have come up with so far is that it is hard, but possible. What I have learned is that you can access fan / public facebook page data through their graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/, however it will only let you request 100 data entries per request. I believe they did this to hinder data miners. so, unless you feel like spending days and days pulling requests to get a significant sample size I suggest you use the second option which is to pay for the data.
http://pagedata.appdata.com/ is the only site i can recall back from when I was doing the research, which means its probably the best of all that i did find. It is 200 bucks a month, which kinda blows. But... unless you can find another way of extracting the data in under 10 hours, then you're probably saving money.
I hope this helps!
weezyFFF
ps; there was another data extraction service that found a way to automate the facebook API data requests, but it cost money, seemed sketchy, and I can't remember the site.