Web Scraping: A Useful Tool to Broaden and Extend Psychological Research

Speckmann, Felix

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dc.contributor.author	Speckmann, Felix	de
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-23T11:01:14Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-23T11:01:14Z
dc.date.issued	2021	de
dc.identifier.issn	2151-2604	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/84582
dc.description.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 exploratorily 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.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Social sciences, sociology, anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject.ddc	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject.ddc	Psychologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Psychology	en
dc.subject.other	Politbarometer 1977-2019 (Partielle Kumulation) (ZA2391 v12.0.0); web scraping; Big Data; internet research ethics	de
dc.title	Web Scraping: A Useful Tool to Broaden and Extend Psychological Research	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Zeitschrift für Psychologie
dc.source.volume	229	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU	de
dc.source.issue	4	de
dc.subject.classoz	Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften	de
dc.subject.classoz	Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods	en
dc.subject.classoz	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject.classoz	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject.classoz	Sozialpsychologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Social Psychology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Internet	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Internet	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Recherche	de
dc.subject.thesoz	investigation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Ethik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	ethics	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Sozialpsychologie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social psychology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Verhaltenspsychologie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	behavioral psychology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Digitale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	digital media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Daten	de
dc.subject.thesoz	data	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Datengewinnung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	data capture	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-84582-6
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
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dc.source.pageinfo	241-244	de
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000470	de
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