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Open Measures - Data Scraping Tool

Data Scraping · Founded by Hank Teran in 2023

Open Measures

Open Measures

A social intelligence platform for tracking extremism, disinformation, and harmful narratives across social media.

Cost

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (≤ 1 hour for basic search and dashboards)

Use Open Measures when you need to monitor, analyze, and respond to online risks like extremist content, propaganda, or narrative campaigns. The platform aggregates from dozens of sources (Telegram, 4chan, TikTok, etc.), provides APIs and analytics tools like timelines, link counters, and network graphs, and helps researchers and organizations contextualize threats in real time. It’s ideal for NGOs, academic researchers, security teams, or media watchers.

What Open Measures does

Search public archives across social sites for keywords or narrativesBuild timelines of mentions and activity around termsCount and visualize link propagation for specific contentMap networks of influence or accounts via link or mention graphsIngest new signals and sources via API for custom monitoringCompare narrative trends across multiple platformsOpen-source / public access ethos with free API tierCross-platform narrative tracking across fringe & mainstream sourcesGraph analytics (node/link visualizations) for influence mappingTimeline and activity tools for historical analysisLink counting & content propagation toolsCustom crawl / API subscriptions in enterprise tier

Frequently asked

Public API (rate limited for open users), Data sources: Telegram, 4chan, TikTok, Gab, Rumble, VK, etc., CLI tool for bulk data access

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disinformation, extremism monitoring, OSINT, narrative analysis, threat intelligence, social media analytics