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Communalytic is a computational social science research tool
for studying online communities and discourse.

Data Collector

An easy-to-use social media data collector designed to collect publicly available data from Reddit, Telegram, YouTube, Facebook/ Instagram (via CrowdTangle) and Twitter, or you can import your own CSV or JSON data files - No coding required

Toxicity Analyzer

An AI-powered toxicity analysis module designed to identify toxic and anti-social interactions in online discourse - Users can choose from two different AI toxicity detection systems: Detoxify or Perspective

Sentiment Analyzer

A lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis module designed to detect the polarity of text in a dataset - Users can choose from 3 different sentiment analysis libraries: VADER (EN), TextBlob (EN, FR, DE), or Dostoevsky (RU)

Topic Analyzer

[NEW] An AI-powered module designed to automatically identify and group together social media posts that are semantically similar using embeddings - No prior knowledge of the dataset is required

Network Analyzer

A network analyzer module designed to automatically generate and visualize various types of signed and unsigned networks including communication and link-sharing networks

Communalytic EDU is designed to help students learn about social media data analytics.

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EDU Account Type/Capacity

  • * Account Type: Free (Req. an academic email address)
  • * Data Storage Cap: Collect and store ≤ 30K records shared across ≤3 datasets
  • * Simultaneously Run Multiple Data Collectors: 3 max
    * Single Sign-in Option: Google
  • * Collaboration Friendly: Access to various team collaboration features

EDU Data Sources

  • * Reddit Historical: up to 200 recent submissions + corresponding comments and replies for a given public subreddit. (This collector supports keyword-based search for relevant submissions.)
    * Reddit Live: Not supported
  • * Telegram: Messages from up to 5 public Telegram channels, groups or super groups per dataset (Req. a Telegram Developer Account)
  • * YouTube: Comments from a specified publicly available YouTube video (Req. a Google Developer Account)
  • * Crowdtangle Facebook/Instagram URL Search: Posts from public Facebook/Instagram accounts, pages or groups that shared the same URL (Req. CrowdTangle Account)
  • * Twitter Recent Search: Retrieves tweets posted within the previous 7 days that match a specified search query. (Req. a Twitter Developers Account and a paid Twitter's API plan).
  • * Twitter Threads: Retrieves replies to any public tweet posted within the previous 7 days (Req. a Twitter Developers Account and a paid Twitter's API plan).
  • * Import CSV Files: Ability to import an existing dataset from a CSV file
  • * Import JSON Files: Not supported

Communalytic PRO is designed for the academic research community and is ideal for large-scale research projects.

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PRO Account Type/Capacity

  • * Account Type: Paid 6-month subscription $349 USD to support site infrastructure such as server-side data collection, processing, analysis, visualization and extra data collection and storage capacity
  • * Data Storage Cap: Collect and store ≤ 10M records shared across ≤50 datasets
  • * Simultaneously Run Multiple Data Collectors: 5 Max
    * Multiple Sign-in Options: Google and Auth0
  • * Collaboration Friendly: Access to various team collaboration features

PRO Data Sources

  • * Reddit Historical: up to 900 recent submissions + corresponding comments and replies for a given public subreddit. (This collector supports keyword-based search for relevant submissions.)
    * Reddit Live: Posts, including submissions, comments and replies to comments from any given public subreddit for ≤ 7 consecutive days
  • * Telegram: Messages from up to 10 public Telegram channels, groups or super groups per dataset (Req. a Telegram Developer Account
  • * YouTube: Comments from a specified publicly available YouTube video (Req. a Google Developer Account)
  • * CrowdTangle Facebook/Instagram URL Search: Posts from public Facebook/Instagram accounts, pages or groups that shared the same URL (Req. a CrowdTangle Account)
  • * Twitter Recent Search: Retrieves tweets posted within the previous 7 days that match a specified search query. (Req. a Twitter Developers Account and a paid Twitter's API plan).
  • * Twitter Threads: Replies to any public tweet posted within the previous 7 days (Req. a Twitter Developers Account and a paid Twitter's API plan).
  • * Import CSV Files: Ability to import an existing dataset from a CSV file
  • * Import JSON Files: Ability to import an existing Twitter or Telegram dataset from JSON/GZ file(s)

Case Studies and Tutorials

Tutorials

New to Communalytic? We have prepared a number of tutorials to help you get started.

CSS Bootcamp

Social Media Lab’s Computational Social Science (CSS) Bootcamp – Video recordings + Slides

Recent Posts

Recent posts

Enabling Public Discourse Research with YouTube Comments Data – No Coding Required

October 18, 2023 Off

Introducing the New Topic Analysis Module in @Communalytic

August 15, 2023 Off

Enabling Public Discourse Research with Telegram Data – No Coding Required

October 24, 2022 Off

Toxicity Comes From Both Sides of the Aisle: An exploratory network and toxicity analysis of reactions to Trump’s and Biden’s pandemic tweets using @Communalytic

April 27, 2021 Off

Social Media Lab’s Computational Social Science (CSS) Bootcamp – Summer 2021

April 7, 2021 Off

@Communalytic Now Supports CrowdTangle URL-Search

February 23, 2021 Off

How to Cite:

If you are using Communalytic in an academic publication, please cite us as: 

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2023). Communalytic: A Research Tool For Studying Online Communities and Online Discourse. Available at https://Communalytic.org