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Social Media

Scrape Social Media Data

Extract public posts, profiles, and engagement metrics from social media platforms.

1

Understand legal boundaries

Only scrape public data. Respect robots.txt and ToS.

2

Set up scraping

Use SearchHive to extract public social media content.

const posts = await client.scrape({
  url: 'https://social.example.com/user/techguru',
  render_js: true,
  extract: { posts: [{ selector: '.post', fields: { text: '.content', likes: '.likes' } }] }
});
3

Analyze engagement

Track likes, shares, comments, and sentiment.

4

Store and visualize

Build dashboards to track social metrics over time.

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