This page lists tools useful for Web data retrieval and analysis. Of course, this page will always be under construction.

Tool	Data	Description	More info
http://infoextractor.org	YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia discussions	a web-based tool for collecting data and metadata from focused social media content. The tool allows social science researchers to easily collect data for quantitative analysis, and is designed to deliver data from popular and influential social media sites in a useful and easy to access way.	InfoExtractor: a Tool for Social Media Data-Mining
http://tubekit.org	YouTube	a query-based YouTube crawling toolkit. This software is a collection of tools that allows one to build one’s own crawler that can crawl YouTube? based on a set of seed queries and collect up to 17 different attributes	Supporting research data collection from YouTube with TubeKit
http://roxyproxy.org	behavioral Web surfing data	Roxy gathers Web log data as well as the text and HTML code of each page visited by participants.	Research Real-World Web Use with Roxy, the Research Proxy
http://code.google.com/p/snowcrawl	political websites	provides a common API for directed webcrawls using a single process, multiple processing, or a client-server architecture. Snowcrawl also automates storage of downloaded files, edge lists, and state backup.	An automated snowball census of the political web