DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3226970
title: Brazilian Facebook Public Pages - Posts and Comments: a research on conservative mentality

description: Data used in: Lerner, Celina. "A mentalidade conservadora no Brasil: uma análise da interação política em redes sociais digitais" - Doctoral Thesis, PCHS/UFABC ,2019

Facebook Public Pages posts and comments<br>
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- Pages:


	padrepaulo, id: 101088766634343
	flaviobolsonaro; id: 156951837773645
	CampanhadoArmamento; id: 170649656341921
	carvalho.olavo; id: 275181425967272
	DireitaConservadoraOficial, id: 307492775999491
	OPesadelodeQualquerPolitico2.0; id:405845152892440
	MisesBrasil; id: 91754571355


- since: 01/01/2012; to: 31/12/2018

- files in each *.zip: 1. page posts; 2. stats per day;  and 3. top comments (200 top comments per post)

Dataset scraped from Facebook with Netvizz (Rieder, 2013). Function: Page Posts, 200 top comments by page


File Column Explanations

<strong>post stat file - tsv format - rows are posts</strong><br>
<em>type:</em> Facebook's post classification (e.g. photo, status, etc.)<br>
<em>by:</em> either"post_page_pageid" (post by page) or "post_user_pageid" (post by user);<br>
<em>post_link:</em> direct link to the post;<br>
<em>post_message:</em> text of the post;<br>
<em>picture:</em> the picture scraped from any link included with the post;<br>
<em>full_picture:</em> the picture scraped from any link included with the post (full size);<br>
<em>link:</em> link URL (if the post points to external content);<br>
<em>link_domain:</em> domain name of link;<br>
<em>post_published:</em> publishing date<br>
<em>post_published_unix:</em> publishing date as Unix timestamp (for easy conversion and ranking);<br>
<em>post_published_sql:</em> publishing date in SQL format (some analysis tools prefer this);<br>
<em>likes:</em> number of actually retrieved likes a post received or a user made;<br>
<em>likes_count_fb:</em> Facebook provided like count for posts;<br>
<em>comments_count_fb:</em> Facebook provided comment count for posts;<br>
<em>reactions_count_fb:</em> Facebook provided reactions count for posts (includes likes);<br>
<em>shares_count_fb:</em> Facebook provided share count for posts;<br>
<em>engagement:</em> sum of comment, reaction, and share counts;<br>
<em>comments_retrieved (not in "stats_only" mode):</em> actually retrieved comments (may be lower than comments_count_fb due to privacy or deletion);<br>
<em>comments_base (not in "stats_only" mode):</em> number of base level comments (in threaded conversations);<br>
<em>comments_replies (not in "stats_only" mode):</em> number of reply level comments (in threaded conversations);<br>
<em>comment_likes_count (not in "stats_only" mode):</em> number of likes on comments for this post;<br>
<em>rea_X:</em> these columns give counts for the retrieved reactions (NONE, LIKE, LOVE, WOW, HAHA, SAD, ANGRY, THANKFUL);

<strong>comments file - tsv format - rows are comments</strong><br>
<em>position:</em> postnumber_commentnumber, e.g. 0_0 for the first comment on the first post; <em>post_id:</em> id of the post;<br>
<em>post_by:</em> author of the post;<br>
<em>post_text:</em> text of the post;<br>
<em>post_published:</em> publishing date of the post;<br>
<em>comment_id:</em> id of the comment;<br>
<em>comment_by:</em> author of the comment (column no longer in use, remains for compatibility);<br>
<em>is_reply:</em> whether the comment is a reply to another comment (in threaded conversations);<br>
<em>comment_message:</em> text of the comment;<br>
<em>comment_published:</em> publishing date of the comment;<br>
<em>comment_like_count:</em> number of likes on the comment;