Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive pertaining to Media Monitoring

This is an archive of tools developed by the DMI & affiliates in the past years. Note that not all tools are still available and while some are actively maintained, others are not.


4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Create datasets from a variety of web platforms - including Reddit, Telegram, 4chan and others - and analyze them.
 
Amazon Related Product Graph
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This command-line Python script allows you to enter a (set of) ASIN(s) and crawl its recommendations up til a user-specified depth.
 
Censorship Explorer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Check whether a URL is censored in a particular country by using proxies located around the world.
 
News Agencies Scraper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Scrape various news agencies for particular keywords and extract titles, images, dates and full text.
 
Robots.txt Discovery
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Display a site's robot exclusion policy.
 
Timestamp Ripper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Rips and displays a web page's last modification date (using the page's HTML header). Beware of dynamically generated pages, where the date stamps will be the time of retrieval.
 
Tracker Tracker
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
DMI App Tracker Tracker is a tool to detect in a set of URLs predefined fingerprints of known web tracking technologies.
 
Tumblr
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
a simple co-hashtag and post data tool for Tumblr
 
Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Captures tweets and allows for multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...)
 
YouTube Data Tools
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
A collection of simple tools for extracting data from the YouTube platform via the YouTube API v3.
 
Zeeschuimer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Zeeschuimer is a browser extension that monitors internet traffic while you are browsing a social media site, and collects data about the items you see in a platform's web interface for late...
 
 
Topic revision: r16 - 18 Sep 2024, StijnPeeters
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