Brazilian Facebook Public Pages - Posts and Comments: a research on conservative mentality

Data used in: Lerner, Celina. "A mentalidade conservadora no Brasil: uma análise da interação política em redes sociais digitais" - Doctoral Thesis, PCHS/UFABC ,2019

Facebook Public Pages posts and comments

- Pages:

1. padrepaulo, id: 101088766634343
2. flaviobolsonaro; id: 156951837773645
3. CampanhadoArmamento; id: 170649656341921
4. carvalho.olavo; id: 275181425967272
5. DireitaConservadoraOficial, id: 307492775999491
6. OPesadelodeQualquerPolitico2.0; id:405845152892440
7. MisesBrasil; id: 91754571355

- since: 01/01/2012; to: 31/12/2018

- files in each *.zip: 1. page posts; 2. stats per day;  and 3. top comments (200 top comments per post)

Dataset scraped from Facebook with Netvizz (Rieder, 2013). Function: Page Posts, 200 top comments by page

File Column Explanations

post stat file - tsv format - rows are posts
type: Facebook's post classification (e.g. photo, status, etc.)
by: either"post_page_pageid" (post by page) or "post_user_pageid" (post by user);
post_link: direct link to the post;
post_message: text of the post;
picture: the picture scraped from any link included with the post;
full_picture: the picture scraped from any link included with the post (full size);
link: link URL (if the post points to external content);
link_domain: domain name of link;
post_published: publishing date
post_published_unix: publishing date as Unix timestamp (for easy conversion and ranking);
post_published_sql: publishing date in SQL format (some analysis tools prefer this);
likes: number of actually retrieved likes a post received or a user made;
likes_count_fb: Facebook provided like count for posts;
comments_count_fb: Facebook provided comment count for posts;
reactions_count_fb: Facebook provided reactions count for posts (includes likes);
shares_count_fb: Facebook provided share count for posts;
engagement: sum of comment, reaction, and share counts;
comments_retrieved (not in "stats_only" mode): actually retrieved comments (may be lower than comments_count_fb due to privacy or deletion);
comments_base (not in "stats_only" mode): number of base level comments (in threaded conversations);
comments_replies (not in "stats_only" mode): number of reply level comments (in threaded conversations);
comment_likes_count (not in "stats_only" mode): number of likes on comments for this post;
rea_X: these columns give counts for the retrieved reactions (NONE, LIKE, LOVE, WOW, HAHA, SAD, ANGRY, THANKFUL);

comments file - tsv format - rows are comments
position: postnumber_commentnumber, e.g. 0_0 for the first comment on the first post; post_id: id of the post;
post_by: author of the post;
post_text: text of the post;
post_published: publishing date of the post;
comment_id: id of the comment;
comment_by: author of the comment (column no longer in use, remains for compatibility);
is_reply: whether the comment is a reply to another comment (in threaded conversations);
comment_message: text of the comment;
comment_published: publishing date of the comment;
comment_like_count: number of likes on the comment;