Social Media Research Toolkit

The Social Media Research Toolkit is a curated collection of more than 50 tools compiled by researchers at the Social Media Lab. Updated each year, it includes only tools used in peer-reviewed academic research. Most are free and require little to no programming experience. [Scroll down and use the ‘Tool Filters‘ to find the right tool for your research project.]

Communalytic* is the lab’s no-code research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media. It automates data collection and provides intuitive modules for sentiment analysis, toxicity detection, topic modelling, and network visualization, making social media research faster and more accessible. [Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Telegram, TikTok, X and YouTube]*A new version of Communlaytic is coming on March 15, 2026! #StayTuned

Social Media Research Tool Filters

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4chan

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4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

4plebs

4plebs is a community-run archive of 4chan.org that archives all threads and images from specific imageboards on 4chan.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

8kun

2
4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

BitChute

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Bluesky

10
4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

OSoMeNet

OSoMeNet is a platform that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns across multiple social media platforms. It helps users understand how content is shared and consumed on various platforms, providing insights into social media dynamics.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

Discord

1
Disboard

Disboard is an online directory where users can list, search for, and promote Discord servers based on categories, interests, and keywords.

Douyin

1
Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Facebook

25
Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that enables users to crawl and scrape data from web pages and export it to a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet via a graphical UI.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based text analysis and data science software that allows users to evaluate large amounts of unstructured free text, survey responses, Twitter data, public comments to government agencies, and more using a simple graphical interface.

Facebook Video Downloader

Facebook Video Downloader is a free online tool that allows users to download videos from Facebook to their own device so they can view them offline.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

InVID Verification Plugin

The InVID Verification Plugin is a browser extension designed to help users such as journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers verify the authenticity of image and video-based content on the web.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

Meta Ad Library

The Meta Ad Library is a public, searchable database that provides access to advertisements running across Meta's platforms.

Meta Ad Library API

Meta Ad Library API is an application programming interface that allows developers, researchers, and other authorized users to programmatically access and perform a deeper, more customized analysis of certain types of ad data from Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Audience Network).

Meta Content API

The Meta Content Library API is a controlled-access research tool that provides approved academic and non-profit researchers with programmatic access (familiar with R and Python ) to a comprehensive archive of public content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta Content Library

The Meta Content Library is a controlled-access dataset of publicly available content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. It allows approved academic and non-profit researchers to access a visual, searchable collection of public posts via a web-based interface, enabling in-depth analysis of user-generated content for scientific or public-interest purposes.

metatargetr

Metatargetr is an open-source R package designed to retrieve, parse, and analyze advertising and targeting data from the Meta Ad Targeting dataset and from the Audience tab in the Meta Ad Library.

Pulsar Platform

Pulsar Platform is an audience intelligence and social listening tool that helps businesses analyze online conversations, track trends, and understand audience behaviour across social media, forums, news and other digital sources.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Facebook Messenger

1
Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

FediVerse

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Gab

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Gettr

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Imgur

2
YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Instagram

28
Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is a content research and discovery tool that helps users discover the most popular content and trends across the web and social media, analyze engagement and identify key influencers for different audiences.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that enables users to crawl and scrape data from web pages and export it to a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet via a graphical UI.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Instaloader

Instaloader is an open-source tool for downloading Instagram photos, videos, stories, and metadata. It allows users to scrape public and private profiles, hashtags, stories, and saved media, extracting captions, comments, and other associated metadata.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

Meta Ad Library

The Meta Ad Library is a public, searchable database that provides access to advertisements running across Meta's platforms.

Meta Ad Library API

Meta Ad Library API is an application programming interface that allows developers, researchers, and other authorized users to programmatically access and perform a deeper, more customized analysis of certain types of ad data from Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Audience Network).

Meta Content API

The Meta Content Library API is a controlled-access research tool that provides approved academic and non-profit researchers with programmatic access (familiar with R and Python ) to a comprehensive archive of public content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta Content Library

The Meta Content Library is a controlled-access dataset of publicly available content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. It allows approved academic and non-profit researchers to access a visual, searchable collection of public posts via a web-based interface, enabling in-depth analysis of user-generated content for scientific or public-interest purposes.

metatargetr

Metatargetr is an open-source R package designed to retrieve, parse, and analyze advertising and targeting data from the Meta Ad Targeting dataset and from the Audience tab in the Meta Ad Library.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is a cloud-based automation platform designed to monitor social media platforms for potential business opportunities and generate reports.

Pulsar Platform

Pulsar Platform is an audience intelligence and social listening tool that helps businesses analyze online conversations, track trends, and understand audience behaviour across social media, forums, news and other digital sources.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Story Saver

Story Saver is an online tool that allows users to download Instagram Stories and Highlights from public accounts.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

LBRY/Odysee

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

LinkedIn

19
Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based text analysis and data science software that allows users to evaluate large amounts of unstructured free text, survey responses, Twitter data, public comments to government agencies, and more using a simple graphical interface.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Parsehub

Parsehub is an API-based web scraping tool that enables users to collect and export data from websites in Excel and JSON formats.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is a cloud-based automation platform designed to monitor social media platforms for potential business opportunities and generate reports.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Mastodon

4
Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

OSoMeNet

OSoMeNet is a platform that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns across multiple social media platforms. It helps users understand how content is shared and consumed on various platforms, providing insights into social media dynamics.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

MeWe

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Minds

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

OK

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Parler

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Pinterest

11
Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

Pulsar Platform

Pulsar Platform is an audience intelligence and social listening tool that helps businesses analyze online conversations, track trends, and understand audience behaviour across social media, forums, news and other digital sources.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Playstation Network

1
PSNprofiles

PSNProfiles is a community platform for gamers who use the PlayStation Network. It helps players track their trophies, view detailed game stats, compare with others, and connect with other gamers.

Poal

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Reddit

15
Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is a content research and discovery tool that helps users discover the most popular content and trends across the web and social media, analyze engagement and identify key influencers for different audiences.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Parsehub

Parsehub is an API-based web scraping tool that enables users to collect and export data from websites in Excel and JSON formats.

Pulsar Platform

Pulsar Platform is an audience intelligence and social listening tool that helps businesses analyze online conversations, track trends, and understand audience behaviour across social media, forums, news and other digital sources.

Redective

Redective (The Reddit Search Detective) is a third-party web tool that lets users search the profile of a Reddit user and automatically tabulates and displays all publicly available and known data about the users.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

RedNote/Xiaohongshu

2
Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Rumble

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

RuTube

2
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Scored

1
Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Snapchat

1
Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Steam

2
SteamID

SteamID is an online lookup tool that lets users search for and convert different types of Steam identifiers for any Steam account.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Telegram

13
4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

TelegramDB

TelegramDB is a third-party searchable index and database of public Telegram chats. It offers an extensive catalogue of public Telegram channels, groups, and bots, allowing users to discover, search, and analyze public content beyond what Telegram’s built-in search provides.

Telemetr.io

Telemetr.io is an advertising analytics platform focused on Telegram. It analyzes and monitors public Telegram channels and chats at scale, tracking their posts, growth engagement, and advertising activity.

Telepathy

Telepathy is a tool for investigating Telegram chats. It allows users to archive Telegram chats, gather memberlists, search users by location, analyze top posters, map forwarded messages, and more.

TGStat

TGStat is a web-based analytics tool for Telegram that indexes over 2.5 million channels and groups, allowing users to track subscriber growth, engagement metrics, and audience demographics using advanced search filters.

tlgrm.eu/channels

tlgrm.eu/channels is a third-party website that functions as a directory or list of public channels on Telegram, helping users discover channels by topic, keyword, or area of interest.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

Threads

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Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Meta Content API

The Meta Content Library API is a controlled-access research tool that provides approved academic and non-profit researchers with programmatic access (familiar with R and Python ) to a comprehensive archive of public content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta Content Library

The Meta Content Library is a controlled-access dataset of publicly available content from Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. It allows approved academic and non-profit researchers to access a visual, searchable collection of public posts via a web-based interface, enabling in-depth analysis of user-generated content for scientific or public-interest purposes.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

TikTok

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4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that enables users to crawl and scrape data from web pages and export it to a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet via a graphical UI.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

OSoMeNet

OSoMeNet is a platform that visualizes information spreading and sharing patterns across multiple social media platforms. It helps users understand how content is shared and consumed on various platforms, providing insights into social media dynamics.

Parsehub

Parsehub is an API-based web scraping tool that enables users to collect and export data from websites in Excel and JSON formats.

Pulsar Platform

Pulsar Platform is an audience intelligence and social listening tool that helps businesses analyze online conversations, track trends, and understand audience behaviour across social media, forums, news and other digital sources.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

TikTokApi 7.2.0

TikTokApi 7.2.0 is an unofficial Python API wrapper for TikTok. It enables developers, researchers, and data scientists to easily retrieve data (videos, trending content, user profiles, etc) from the platform for analysis.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Truth Social

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Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

Tumblr

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4CAT (Capture and Analysis Toolkit)

4CAT is a research tool designed to capture, analyze, and process data from online social platforms. Users can create datasets from various platforms and download or analyze them using a suite of analytical processors, suitable for both new and experienced users.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Twitch

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Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

VK

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Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Weibo

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Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

WhatsApp

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Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Wimkin

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Open Measures (formerly, Social Media Analysis Toolkit or SMAT)

Open Measures is a social intelligence platform for researchers to monitor and analyze the spread of harmful online content, including extremism and disinformation.

X (Twitter)

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Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is a content research and discovery tool that helps users discover the most popular content and trends across the web and social media, analyze engagement and identify key influencers for different audiences.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that enables users to crawl and scrape data from web pages and export it to a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet via a graphical UI.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based text analysis and data science software that allows users to evaluate large amounts of unstructured free text, survey responses, Twitter data, public comments to government agencies, and more using a simple graphical interface.

Facepager

Facepager can collect, analyze, and visualize data from popular online platforms through APIs and webscraping. All data is stored in a SQLite database and can be exported as a .csv file.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Parsehub

Parsehub is an API-based web scraping tool that enables users to collect and export data from websites in Excel and JSON formats.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is a cloud-based automation platform designed to monitor social media platforms for potential business opportunities and generate reports.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Snscrape

Snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services. It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Tweet Archivist

Tweet Archivist is a tool designed for Twitter analytics and data preservation. It allows users to upload, analyze, and preserve their complete Twitter history, enabling them to track engagement metrics, generate visualizations, and export data in multiple formats.

Twitter Audit by Fedica

Twitter Audit is designed to analyze an X account's followers to estimate the ratio of real followers to fake, bot or inactive accounts to help users protect their accounts and maintain an authentic follower base.

Twitter Video Downloader

Twitter Video Downloader is an online tool that allows users to download videos and GIFs from public X posts by converting a URL into a downloadable video file.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.

Zeeschuimer

Zeeschuimer is a browser extension designed to extract data from social media platforms that resist conventional scraping or API-based data collection. It enables researchers to capture information about the posts and items displayed in their interface as they browse, allowing the data to be analyzed later.

YouTube

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Audiense

Audiense is a platform that helps marketers gain insights into their target audiences. It leverages social data to analyze consumer behaviour, interests, and preferences, enabling businesses to create targeted marketing strategies.

Brand24

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening and media monitoring tool that helps businesses track and analyze online conversations about their brands, competitors, and relevant keywords across social media, blogs, and news sites.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is a content research and discovery tool that helps users discover the most popular content and trends across the web and social media, analyze engagement and identify key influencers for different audiences.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code research tool that helps scholars, journalists, and students analyze online communities and public discourse across multiple social media platforms. It automates data collection and offers intuitive analytic modules like sentiment, toxicity, topic modelling, and network visualization, making advanced social media research fast, accessible, and insight-driven.

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch

Crimson Hexagon Brandwatch is a platform that integrates social media listening and market research. It provides users with consumer insights, allowing them to analyze audiences, track brand perception, and detect market trends across various online sources.

Dash Hudson

Dash Hudson is a social media management platform designed to help image-focused brands manage and analyze their social media presence. It offers a suite of tools for content planning, scheduling, analytics, and influencer marketing.

Data Miner

Data Miner is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that enables users to crawl and scrape data from web pages and export it to a CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet via a graphical UI.

Digmind (now Onclusive Social)

Digimind (now Onclusive Social) is a social listening, market and competitive intelligence solution. It provides information on businesses' market competitiveness and serves as a platform for research, data collection, analysis, and reporting.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based text analysis and data science software that allows users to evaluate large amounts of unstructured free text, survey responses, Twitter data, public comments to government agencies, and more using a simple graphical interface.

Facepager

Facepager can collect, analyze, and visualize data from popular online platforms through APIs and webscraping. All data is stored in a SQLite database and can be exported as a .csv file.

Google Trends YouTube Search

Google Trends' YouTube Search feature analyzes the popularity of YouTube search queries across various regions and languages. It allows users to measure search interest in any keyword over time, providing insights into how frequently specific search terms are entered relative to total search volume, helping users understand trends and patterns…

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that includes scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

InfraNodus (formerly Textexture)

InfraNodus is a text network visualization tool that helps users analyze and understand complex texts through network graphs, knowledge graphs, and other visualizations, as well as AI-powered analysis features.

InVID Verification Plugin

The InVID Verification Plugin is a browser extension designed to help users such as journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers verify the authenticity of image and video-based content on the web.

Meltwater Social (Sysomos)

Meltwater Social (Sysomos) is a platform that helps businesses track brand mentions, analyze trends, measure social performance, and manage online engagement across multiple social channels.

Mention

Mention is a social listening and media platform that allows users to track any topic, brand, or influencer across social media and the web in real-time.

NodeXL

NodeXL is a social network analysis tool that integrates with Microsoft Excel, simplifying tasks such as obtaining network data, storing it, analyzing and visualizing it, and generating reports that share insights into connected structures.

Octoparse

Octoparse no-code web scraping tool that lets users extract structured data from any website (e-commerce, social media, etc.) using point-and-click actions, without needing to write code, offering pre-built templates, cloud extraction, scheduling, and advanced features to automate data collection for price monitoring, lead gen, and market research.

Parsehub

Parsehub is an API-based web scraping tool that enables users to collect and export data from websites in Excel and JSON formats.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is a cloud-based automation platform designed to monitor social media platforms for potential business opportunities and generate reports.

Semrush

SEMrush is a digital marketing tool that provides a suite of features for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and competitor analysis. It helps users conduct keyword research, track competitors, optimize Google Ads, and improve online visibility.

Social Insider

Social Insider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform. It provides a suite of tools that enable users to gain insights into their own and competitors' social media performance, automate reporting, and track multiple cross-platform social media campaigns.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management platform that helps businesses of all sizes to manage, monitor and measure their presence across multiple social networks.

Talkwalker

Talkwalker is an AI-enabled platform that specializes in social listening, media monitoring, and social benchmarking. It helps brands monitor and analyze online conversations across various platforms and leverage insights from social and consumer data.

Visibrain Focus

Visibrain Focus is a social media listening platform that monitors large platforms for businesses. It allows users to detect risks and opportunities across the social web, providing insights on brand reputation, trends, and campaigns.

YouTube Data Tools

YouTube Data Tools is a collection of tools for extracting data from the YouTube platform via the YouTube API v3, such as Channel Info, Video Co-commenting Networks, and Channel Networks.

YouTube Geofind

YouTube Geofind is a search tool that allows users to search YouTube for videos that have been geotagged with a specific location.

YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a huge number of other video hosting platforms and services.