Speckmann, Felix (2021). Web Scraping A Useful Tool to Broaden and Extend Psychological Research. Z. Psychol.-J. Psychol., 229 (4). S. 241 - 245. BOSTON: HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP. ISSN 2151-2604
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When people use the Internet, they leave traces of their activities: blog posts, comments, articles, social media posts, etc. These traces represent behavior that psychologists can analyze. A method that makes downloading those sometimes very large datasets feasible is web scraping, which involves writing a program to automatically download specific parts of a website. The obtained data can be used to exploratority generate new hypotheses, test existing ones, or extend existing research. The present Research Spotlight explains web scraping and discusses the possibilities, limitations as well as ethical and legal challenges associated with the approach.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-562345 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1027/2151-2604/a000470 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Z. Psychol.-J. Psychol. | ||||||||
Volume: | 229 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 241 - 245 | ||||||||
Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
Publisher: | HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | BOSTON | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2151-2604 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56234 |
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