f_moncomble

f_moncomble , 3 months ago to linguistics

And another one for fellow linguists interested in compiling #corpora of digital discourse: MastoScraper takes advantage of the Mastodon API to collect toots based on a keyword search.
Here goes, feedback welcome!
#linguistics @linguistics
https://fmoncomble.github.io/mastoscraper/

f_moncomble OP , 3 months ago

@ruettet @linguistics Of course it is (an interesting discussion to have), and the fact is that commercial tools are out there already, made possible ever since Mastodon instances enabled full-text search…
Having toots accessible via full-text search is an opt-in for users however, which does provide us with a little control over our posts…