Published September 12, 2016 | Version v3
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SocialCrawler

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Blekinge Institute of Technology
  • 2. UC Davis

Description

SocialCrawler is a distributed crawler designed to crawl public groups and pages on Facebook.

This crawler differs significantly from other existing crawlers in terms of efficiency and crawling depth. It is getting all interactions related to every single post. In addition, is the crawler able to understand interaction dynamics, enabling support for making informed decisions on what content to re-crawl in order to get the most recent snapshot of interactions.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
https://github.com/dslfaithdev/SocialCrawler (URL)
Is supplemented by
10.1109/ENIC.2015.10 (DOI)

References

  • F. Erlandsson, R. Nia, M. Boldt, H. Johnson and S. F. Wu, "Crawling Online Social Networks," Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC), 2015 Second European, Karlskrona, 2015, pp. 9-16. doi: 10.1109/ENIC.2015.10