http://www.issuescraper.net/index.php
The site is Beta, but it is not clear how one can get access (a username) to use the web-tool.
"The IssueScraper is a Software that performs comparative analysis of blogs and news. It watches the movement of stories across media spaces. It is built with wizards to enable step-by-step story mapping. The software also has a free analysis path.
Why the IssueScraper?
What is the path taken by a story across the blogsphere and the newssphere? Which sources pick up a story and when? What are the angles taken by news sources and blogs to a particular story? How do these angles change over time? The IssueScraper is a new media analysis tool.
How to IssueScrape?
The IssueScraper performs comparative, time-series analysis of stories moving in and across the blogsphere and the newssphere. You may query news and blog aggregators for sets of key words (story + angle1; story + angle2; etc.). You may create source sets, e.g., Middle Eastern press sources only, and query the source set for stories and angles. The IssueScraper also will discover a blogsphere for you through a link analysis of a set of seed blogs, e.g., the U.K. political blogsphere."
| Source | The Govcomorg Foundation team |
| Difficulty | Unknown |
| Compatibility | Unknown |
| Rating | 4 |
| Language | en |