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Toolkit for capturing and analysing data from online platforms. We use this profile for updates on the tool! 🐈🐈🐈🐈
See https://4cat.nl and https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
Follow @digitalmethods.net for more tool updates.
Hi Baptiste, yes, you can scrape messages from open Telegram groups with 4CAT's Telegram data source. You'll find more information when going to "Create dataset" and selecting "Telegram" as a data source. This requires a valid API key.
July 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🌍 Web interface enhancements:
• Extension management via the web app
• New 'Jobs' page in the control panel
• Faster page loads for large datasets
• Dataset parameters are now copyable
• Expanded API functionality
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
⚙️ Misc processor improvements:
• More processors can now write annotations, like the Whisper processor for audio to text.
• Annotations are carried over when filtering
• Improved proxy handling for image and metadata downloads
• Updated language resources for tokenisation
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🎞️ New: 'Video Wall' processor
Create collages from video datasets.
Ideal for exploration and presentation of audiovisual materials (and to overstimulate yourself with Italian Brainrot memes).

📈 Other new processors:
• 'Confusion Matrix' for evaluation
• 'Replace Text' to change any text value
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🧠 New: 'LLM Prompter' processor
A much more robust and flexible way to analyse datasets with LLMs
• More APIs: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Mistral
• Support for LM Studio and Ollama to use local (and free) LLMs
• Batching of input values to increase speed and reduce cost
• Structured outputs
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🔎The Explorer lets you examine datasets in a rich environment where social media posts are "reassembled" to look like their original appearance.

You can sort data, make manual annotations like field notes, or let (LLM-)processors add categories and notes.

How to use: github.com/digitalmetho...
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hi John, you can upload JSON files as custom datasets. Many processors also output JSON. Hope that helps!
April 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
and... you see these Bluesky updates on the "About" page! Feel free to get in touch.
October 15, 2024 at 10:33 AM