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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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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Speckmann, Felix UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language BIG DATA Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56234