Open Measures now crawls the Odnoklassniki (OK) social networking service. The data is available via our Public API and app.
TLDR:
Open Measures is collecting content produced by groups and users on the Odnoklassniki (OK) social networking service. We are continually adding new users and groups to track. The data is immediately available via Public API and app.
Background
OK is owned by the Russian technology company, VK Company Limited. VK also owns a similar social networking site called “VK”, sometimes called the Russian Facebook. OK has more than 200 million registered users and is the second most popular social network in Russia, next to VK. We hope collecting data on OK will expand researchers’ insight into the social information space on the internet in Russia.
Brief Analysis
We first aggregated ~5,000 OK group URLs that appeared across Open Measures existing collections and fed these into the crawler. The crawler then spiders across these groups by collecting posts, comments and group members. Thus far we have collected ~20,000 group posts and ~170,000 users. The crawler will grab all posts and comments made by the users, resulting in ~65,000 data points.
Our platform has various processes for collecting both live and historical data. Therefore, our data timeframe spans from 2008 to the present. As always, Open Measures welcomes collection requests from our community – please get in touch!
Conclusion
Open Measures now collects select groups and profiles from the Odnoklassniki (OK) social network. The data is available via our Public API and app