We finally did it. On top of our existing online news crawlers and blog crawlers, we have successfully released our brand new forum/message board crawlers . We offer thus the whole Geman Social Web through one Trendiction Social Stream API. Forums / Message Boards are often referred to as the “Oldies” in the social media environment. However, still in the age of Twitter, Facebook and Google+, we often observe the publication of the most useful information in threads and posts in forums and message boards. This includes feedback, opinions, criticisms, feature requests or problems that users experience when consuming different products. Due to this very meaningful information published in forums, they are one of the most important and relevant sources for most of the social media studies and social media monitoring tools in Europe. The most active areas are technology, automotive, insurance, leisure wear and gaming forums.
As we noticed in the past that many of our customers faced significant problems (extraction, scaling,…) in gathering high-quality data and metadata out of message boards, we developed our crawling technology to offer a simple way to find and integrate message board data in the social media monitoring solutions of our customers (social media monitoring tool providers, media monitoring companies, market research institutes, agencies, various web applications, …)
Our offering:
- More than 2000 (soon 3000
) forums for the DACH area (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
- More than 300 000 records per day
- Automated addition of customer lists within 48 hours (42 languages are supported)
- Automated extraction, calculation and delivery of metadata (author, publication date, thread linking information, title, text…)
- full integration of message board feed possible into your social media monitoring tools
If you are interested in integrating a structured and annotated message board feed into your media monitoring solution, feel free in contacting us at contact@trendiction.com.
Keywords: Foren Monitoring, Foren Feed, Message Board Stream, Foren Crawling, Forum Crawling, Message Board Crawling