A chrome extension that automatically collects posts and comments in the browser and additional scripts to organize data. Developed as a part of Dr. Yudong Liu research lab. Currently a work in progress
- Scrapes all post and comments on the home page as the user scrolls through their facebook.
- Context Menu option to right click a specific post and scrape all comments
- Ability to download data in a json_file
- Scripts to unpack json objects, filter comments based on heursitics, and analyze the data
- Download as a zip file
- Open Google Chrome
- Go to
chrome://extensions - Click the "Developer mode" button top right
- Click "Load unpacked"
- Select the extracted folder
- Right click the date of a facebook post
- Click extract facebook post
- Wait for the newtab to finish scraping comments
- To download data, go to
chrome://extensionsand click the details bar on the extension. Then click extension options. Alternatively if the extension is pin then simply hover over its icon and click options. - Finally, click download data
Hansel Guzman-Soto ([email protected])
Carson Vandegriffe ([email protected])
Hannah Buzard ([email protected])