Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive pertaining to Mapping

This is an archive of tools developed by the DMI & affiliates in the past years. Note that not all tools are still available and while some are actively maintained, others are not.


App Tracker explorer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
DMI App Tracker Tracker is a tool to detect in a set of APK files predefined fingerprints of known tracking technologies or other software libraries.
 
Brightbeam
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Interactively capture and inspect third-party trackers encountered while browsing.
 
Extract URLs
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Extracts URLs from an Issuecrawler result file (.xml). Useful for retrieving starting points as well as a clean list of the actors in the network.
 
Github repositories scraper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Scrape Github for forks of projects
 
Google Play Store Scraper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Google Play Store Scraper is a simple tool to extract the details of individual apps, collect their related apps, retrieve app permissions, and retrieve a list of apps for a given keyword.
 
Internet Archive Wayback Machine Network Per Year
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter a set of URLs and the archived versions closest to 1 July for a specific year are retrieved. Thereafter links are extracted and a network file is output.
 
Issuecrawler
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter URLs and the Issue Crawler performs co-link analysis in one, two or three iterations, and outputs a cluster graph. The Issue Crawler also has modules for snowball crawling (up to 3 deg...
 
Lippmannian Device
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
The Lippmannian device is named Walter Lippmann, and provides a coarse means of showing actor partisanship.
 
Lippmannian Device To Gephi
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This tool allows one to visualize the output of the Lippmannian device as a network with Gephi.
 
Netvizz
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Extracts various datasets from Facebook.
 
Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Captures tweets and allows for multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...)
 
Wikipedia History Flow Companion
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
This script allows you to specify a range of Wikipedia revisions for use with the History Flow visualization.
 
YouTube Data Tools
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
A collection of simple tools for extracting data from the YouTube platform via the YouTube API v3.
 
iTunes App Store Scraper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
The iTunes App Store Scraper is a simple tool to extract the details of individual apps, collect their related apps, and retrieve a list of apps for a given keyword.
 
 
Topic revision: r16 - 18 Sep 2024, StijnPeeters
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