This repo contains all data and code used to publish https://joren485.github.io/DutchPoliticalFacebookAdComparision/, a website that compares and aggregates statistics about Facebook advertisements by Dutch political parties. It is based on data from the Facebook Ad Library. It consists of three parts: the data, the code and the website files. For more info on the data that you see on the website, please visit the about page.
The data directory contains a list of Facebook pages that are used by Dutch political parties. It also contains wordlists used in the theme analysis.
The parsing directory contains the code that downloads, parses and analyses the data. The templates directory contains Jinja2 template HTML files that are used by the code to render the final website.
download.py: Takes the list of Facebook pages in the data directory and downloads Facebook ads ran by those pages. It saves all found ads in a SQLite database (indata).- This requires a Facebook token to run. Please see the Facebook Ad Library API documentation for further information.
processing-general.py: Analyses the ads in the database to render the index and about pages.processing-party.py: Analyses the ads in the database to render the party specific pages.processing-themes.py: Analyses the ads in the database to render the themes page.parse_pages.py: A small standalone script that creates a list of Facebook pages used by Dutch political parties in the data directory. Please note that the output of this script contains many false positives.charts.jscontains Javascript code to render the graphs.
index.html and the website directory contain the rendered website. GitHub Pages serves these.