Analyzing data from social media in order to learn about current political or societal attitudes. Social media scraping can be used to evaluate the latest trends in just about everything. The process is performed by specialized bots, which are able to grab millions of opinions very quickly.
The Platforms Encourage Scraping
Most social media platforms make scraping easy by offering a programming interface (API) that bots can use to directly access their content (see
API). See
scraping and
social media.