Case Study: University of Nebraska-Lincoln achieves multi-platform social media research with Apify

University of Nebraska-Lincoln scales research across 4 social platforms with Apify

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln research lab, led by Ming Wang, faced a challenge in scaling its social media research. Its existing tool only provided reliable data from X, leaving critical gaps in its ability to collect historical data from TikTok and Instagram. To study public conversations on emerging technologies and health issues, the lab needed a way to gather topic-based datasets from these visual platforms. They turned to Apify's social media scrapers to solve this data access problem.

Using Apify, the lab gained access to reliable data from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, which was previously unavailable. This solution enabled them to build cross-platform datasets for various research projects, combining text, visuals, and engagement metrics. As a result, Apify became the foundation for the lab's multi-platform research, supporting multiple grant-funded projects, interdisciplinary collaborations, and upcoming publications by providing the necessary data infrastructure.

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