Dear all

Further to my request a few weeks ago, I've had a few people ask to see the
replies I received.  This was the one that fit my needs best- but thank you
again to everyone else that replied.

If anyone has any insight for including figures from Facebook or Mailchimp
in the spreadsheet, that would be much appreciated!

I hope this helps!

Kat

-----Original Message-----
From: Dimmock Nick [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 15 May 2012 15:46
To: Kat Nower
Subject: RE: social media monitoring tools

Hi Kat. It's fairly simple, when you know how, to pull Twitter follower
counts into a Google Spreadsheet. To see this in action, start a new
spreadsheet in Google Docs and enter this in the formula field for a cell:

=importXML("[username]http://twitter.com/[username]","//span[@id='follower_c
ount']")

This will fill the cell with the follower count for our university's main
Twitter feed. Just replace [username] with the Twitter username you're
interested in, and repeat that four times for your four Twitter accounts.
You can then sum the columns as usual to get a grand total.

Similarly, you can get subscribers and views from a YouTube account with
this syntax:

=importXML("http://www.youtube.com/user/[username]","//span[@class='stat-val
ue']")

- again, substitute username with yours. In this case, the number of
subscribers will be in the first cell and the total video views in the next.

I'm afraid I've not had much experience with scraping Facebook likes in this
way, but I imagine it's possible. It's also quite likely there are better
ways of doing all this, but using these formulas will get a simple stats
spreadsheet sorted in a very short time. The main downside is that the stats
will be updated live, so you'd need to download or print off a copy on the
day you need your stats. On the other hand, you can make use of other Google
Docs features like publishing to a web resource / RSS feed or whatever.

Hope that's of some help, anyway. If it sounds promising but baffling I'd be
happy to help set up an example spreadsheet using your feeds.

Nick

Nick Dimmock
Research Information Specialist
Library and Learning Services
University of Northampton
nectar.northampton.ac.uk
[log in to unmask] 01604 893514

-----Original Message-----
From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kat Nower
Sent: 15 May 2012 12:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: social media monitoring tools

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

 

Hi All

 

There may be something really obvious I've not thought of here, but I
wondered, does anyone know of a tool to monitor the number of
followers/favourites/views that you have across your various social media
channels?

 

I currently look after 4 subject based Twitter feeds, a youtube account, a
Facebook account plus 4 pages, and am regularly asked for information on the
number of followers we have, or the number of views that have occurred.  Is
there a way I can collate this info in a single view, without having to log
in and out of the various accounts?  It would make life much easier!

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Kat Nower

Information Officer

Race Equality Foundation

Gaddum House

Great Jackson Street

Manchester 

M15 4AX

 

Tel: 01618 399799

  

Email:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 

 

 <http://www.raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/>
http://www.raceequalityfoundation.org.uk 

 

Embed race equality into your every day work with our free-to-view resource
collections on Better Health < <http://www.better-health.org.uk/>
http://www.better-health.org.uk/> and Better Housing <
<http://www.better-housing.org.uk/about.htm>
http://www.better-housing.org.uk/about.htm>

 

Follow @raceequality on Twitter!

 

This e-mail and any files transmitted with it contain information which is
confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the
intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note
that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the
information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this
communication in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender.
This e-mail does not necessarily reflect the views of the Race Equality
Foundation or its Trustees. The Race Equality Foundation is a registered
charity, number 1051096 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in
England with the registered number 3121679. The Race Equality Foundation's
registered office is Unit 35, Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road, London N7
9AH.

 Ranked number 1 in the UK for Value Added

The University of Northampton has achieved the top ranking among UK
Universities for VALUE ADDED in the Guardian Universities League table for
2012. See more about this on our website
http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/article/133/the-university-of-northampton-
is-no-1-for-value-added--the-guardian.

This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended
recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly
prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this
e-mail or any information contained in it. We virus scan all E-mails leaving
The University of Northampton but no warranty is given that this E-mail and
any attachments are virus free. You should undertake your own virus
checking. The right to monitor E-mail communications through our networks is
reserved by us.