Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive pertaining to The URL

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.


Censorship Explorer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Check whether a URL is censored in a particular country by using proxies located around the world.
 
Compare Lists
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Compare two lists of URLs for their commonalities and differences.
 
Expand Tiny Urls
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Expands URLs that have been shortened by tools like tinyurl.com or bit.ly. Often used in social media such as Twitter or Facebook.
 
Geo IP
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Translates URLs or IP addresses into geographical locations
 
Googlescraper (Search Engine Scraper)
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Batch queries Google. Query the resonance of a particular term, or a series of terms, in a set of Websites.
 
Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Ripper
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Scrapes links from the Wayback Machine
 
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.
 
Screenshot generator
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Produce screenshots for a list of URLs
 
Search Engine Scraper
 
TLD counts
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Enter URLS, and count the top level domains.
 
Tracker Tracker
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
DMI App Tracker Tracker is a tool to detect in a set of URLs predefined fingerprints of known web tracking technologies.
 
Wikipedia Edits Scraper and IP Localizer
Launch toolInstructions & Scenarios of Use
Scrapes Wikipedia history and does IP to Geo for anonymous edits
 
 
Topic revision: r16 - 18 Sep 2024, StijnPeeters
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