STACKS - Social Media Tracker, Analyzer, & Collector Toolkit at Syracuse

STACKS is an extensible social media research toolkit designed to collect, process, and store data from online social networks. The toolkit is an ongoing project via the Syracuse University iSchool, and currently supports the Twitter Streaming API. Collecting from the Twitter search API is under development. The toolkit architecture is modular and supports extending.

You can cite this repository:

Jeff Hemsley, Sam Jackson, Sikana Tanupabrungsun, & Billy Ceskavich. (2019). bitslabsyr/stack: STACKS 3.1 (Version 3.1). http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2638848

This documentation assumes the following:

You know how to use ssh.
Your server has MongoDB already installed.
You understand how to edit files using vim (“vi”) or nano.
You have rights and know how to install Python libraries.

Installation

Please read through Install to go through the STACK installation process.

Prior to installing STACK, make sure you have MongoDB installed and running on your server. Learn how to install MongoDB here.

Wiki

To learn more about STACK semantics, logging, and processing parameters, refer to our wiki.

Ongoing Work + Next Action Items

This list will be updated soon with more detailed action items. Please note again that we are actively working on this toolkit!

Full move away from .ini file use
Extensible module format for future social network implementations
Exentesible back-end API

Credits

Lovingly maintained at Syracuse University by:

Distributed under the MIT License:

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