TheSkallywag / SocialPath

Track users across social media platforms

SocialPath

Write-up https://medium.com/@woj_ciech/socialpath-track-users-across-social-media-platforms-ed5226c8ee8c

Track users across social media platforms

Supported services:

• Facebook (posts only)
• Twitter
• Stackoverflow
• Instagram
• Reddit

App uses Django and D3js to draw charts.

Requirements:

• Django
• Tweepy
• PRAW
• Django related packages
• facebook_scraper

Install

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py makemigrations social
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py migrate social
python3 manage.py createsuperuser
python3 manage.py runserver

After that SocialPath will be accessible at localhost:8000/search

Paste your API keys into backend/keys.json Remember to escape double quotes (") in instagram cookie with \ in json

Change your timezone at socialpath/settings.py. It's important for scheduled background tasks.

Make sure you have added python3 to your PATH, app calls subprocess in social/views.py

You can check status of the tasks on http://localhost:8000/admin/background_task

Directory is created for each user with csv inside under /static/, for visualizations.

Screens