Towards the Design and Implementation of an OSN Crawler: A Case of Turkish Facebook Users

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dc.contributor.authorÇoban, Önder
dc.contributor.authorİnan, Ali
dc.contributor.authorÖzel, Selma Ayşe
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:24:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:24:15Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentAdana Alparslan Türkeş Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractOnline Social Networks (OSNs) are extremely popular services that allow users to interact with each other and sharecontent. Due to the large amounts of data shared by users, OSNs are also rich data sources for research in social networkanalysis. Studying the usage of OSNs helps to understand users’ content-sharing behavior and privacy concerns. In order to doso, collecting data is a necessary first step. However, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by OSN providers haveseveral limitations which make it difficult to access secured information. In this paper, we present the design and implementationof an OSN crawler, discuss the challenges of this task and our workarounds towards accessing public OSN data. Moreover, weperform analyses of the collected data to indicate users’ sharing behavior and give a detailed discussion of these analyses from theperspective of individual privacy protection over OSNs. Our crawler overcomes most of the restrictions of OSN APIs and collectsall forms of OSN user interactions as well as every bit of public data posted on an OSN. Most of the existing studies collectOSN data using focused crawlers and therefore are capable of collecting only the desired type of data. Our crawler, on the otherhand, provides a holistic view. On the popular Facebook OSN, our crawler captures user relationships like kinship, friendship andattributes like profile items, events, posts, comments, replies, meta-data of activities (i.e., posting time, location, tagged users etc.).To the best of our knowledge, ours is the most comprehensive OSN data collection effort and also the first study focused on thebehavior of OSN users in Turkey.
dc.identifier.endpage93
dc.identifier.issn2147-0030
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage76
dc.identifier.trdizinid379601
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/379601
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1153
dc.identifier.volume9
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY SCIENCE
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.titleTowards the Design and Implementation of an OSN Crawler: A Case of Turkish Facebook Users
dc.typeArticle

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