Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Seven): Fridays4Future Visualisations

Fridays4Future Scraping and Network Diagramming

1. Selection criteria

Looking at accounts from these two most recent posts (21 September):https://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture.au/

Anything with FridaysForFuture or FFF in their username (or something similar)

Not individual accounts.

2. Accounts: 

fridaysforfuture.au – done

fff_sydney – done

FridaysForFuture

fridaysforfuture.duesseldorf – done

fridaysforfuture.duesseldorf – repeat

fridaysforfuturesantamarta – done

fridaysforfuture_vorarlberg – done

fridaysforfuturecfe – done

fridaysforfuture.bayreuth – done

fridaysforfuture.kiel – done

youthforclimateindia – done

xrnorway – done

fffrosetodegliabruzzi – done

fff_nevers – done

fffulldecona – done

fridaysforfuture_corfu – done

fff.digital – done

fridaysforfuture.trikala – done

punefff – done

fridaysforfuture.gasteiz – done

fridaysforfuture_bagheria – done

3. Scraping

In /Users/kheggart/Dropbox/Keith/Technology/Instagram Scraping/instapy

source env/bin/activate

python3 grab.py -a <<username>> -p 100

4. Need to import them into an excel spreadsheet
5. Then import that into R Studio
6. Creating the edge list
7. Exporting to Gephi
8. Doing the visualisation