extracting text from forums/threads etc (1 Viewer)

broken arm

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i remeber there used to be a programme that allowed you to extract all the html pages from a site and download in one go..

is there something similar for just the text from forums?

say you wanted to just extract the text from all the posts in one thread, is that possible for anyone other than pete?

or even extracting text from a single poster.

thanks
 
I'm curious why you'd want to do that.

I want to practice with some text analysis methods (e.g. discourse analysis) - so broadly analysing the text of a particular thread or of a particular poster - including myself

I would also like to do Wordles of the same text to give some insights to nature of debate etc.

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i think you need a break from thumped broken arm.

he he..

well considering my day job is a "Senior" Researcher I can be forgiven for doing this.

What I originally wanted to do was take the lisbon referendum letters in the Irish times going back the last 6 months and split the data between the yes/no/maybe letters and do some analysis of the themes/discourse.

I thought I'd test the method on more easily accessible data first.
 

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