A no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media.
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New Communalytic
Designed for researchers, instructors, students, journalists and other data professionals.
If Communalytic supports your academic work, we’d really appreciate a citation. Thank you!
Social Media Data Collectors
Designed by Researchers with Academic Rigour in Mind
Communalytic provides researchers, instructors, students, journalists and other data professionals, such as product managers and developers, PR and communications teams, sales teams, and customer support teams, with essential resources and infrastructure to conduct in-depth, cross-platform analysis of online discourse.
Users can bring their own data or use one of Communalytic’s twenty easy-to-use, no-code social media data collectors.
Bluesky*
Mastodon
Telegram
TikTok*
X
YouTube
* New Data Collectors
Data Analyzers that Keep the Human-in-the-loop
Communalytic also comes with a comprehensive suite of built-in data analyzers capable of processing both social and non-social media data. The included analyzers incorporate human-in-the-loop AI features that help guide complex analysis, surface patterns, and suggest next steps without removing user oversight. Researchers maintain complete control throughout the process, allowing them to add essential context and expertise and make all final decisions. This balance of automation and human judgment makes Communalytic well-suited for rigorous research, responsible social listening, and nuanced understanding of online discourse at scale.
Civility Analyzer
Identifies toxic interactions in any dataset using the latest machine-learning models
Sentiment Analyzer
[New] Classify sentiments in any dataset using different multilingual sentiment classification models
Topic Analyzer
Discovers latent topics based on the semantic similarity between social media posts in any dataset using embeddings and multilingual large language models
Network Analyzer
Generates and visualizes various types of networks, including communication and link-sharing networks
When used together, these analytical modules can be used to study online communities and prominent public voices; map toxic conversations, shared interests, and relationships among online actors; examine the spread of misinformation and disinformation; detect signs of coordination among seemingly unrelated actors; and explore many other dynamics shaping online discourse.
* Your paid subscriptions help keep the Lite/Student account tiers free for teaching and learning. It also supports Communalytic’s essential site infrastructure, including higher server-side data collection limits, improved analysis and visualization tools, and expanded data storage.
Suggested Citation
Building and maintaining this platform represents a significant investment of time and care. If Communalytic supports your work, we’d really appreciate a citation. Thank you, Anatoliy and Philip – Developers
Academic Researchers
- Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (<access year>). Communalytic: A no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media. Available at https://Communalytic.org
For Journalists
- If you mention Communalytic in a news story or other mass media publication, please refer to it as “a leading computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media.”
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API/Data Access
A Communalytic subscription provides access to our software and hardware infrastructure for collecting, storing, and analyzing data. It does not guarantee access to data from any third-party platforms.
As Communalytic uses only official APIs, access to external data is controlled entirely by the platforms themselves and may require separate approval or additional payment. For example, collecting data from X requires a paid API plan.
If a third-party platform changes its policies, limits or ends data access, modifies its API, or introduces new fees or paywalls during your subscription, refunds will not be issued because these decisions are beyond Communalytic’s control.
See our FAQ and Tutorials for platform-specific details and data access instructions.