i currently work at a scientific project that tries to analyze the comment section of a particular posting both in instagram and facebook and later compare the results. Therefore i would like to ask if there is a handy way to extract the comments and sort them by their likes?
Thanks!
It seems like this should be possible. Have you ever worked with the Facebook and Instagram Graph APIs before?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apis-and-sdks
It looks like you might be able to find out a way to get comments on Instagram though the documentation is a big vague from what I could find. At the very least you can get the number of comments and likes on a post, but I'm not clear on whether you can load the individual comments or likes on comments. Might be worth some experimentation. Maybe some kind of phrasing similar to
media{comments{like_count}}?https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/guides/business-discovery#getting-basic-metrics-on-media
It looks like you can do it pretty easily on Facebook at though.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v10.0/comment
R has a number of good sorting algorithms you can use. I think the big challenge here is figuring out how to get the API set up and accessing the data.