Using GitHub Actions for Political Communication Research

Overview

This repository includes the scripts and files needed to use GitHub Actions to collect Bluesky and YouTube data for political communication research.

File Structure

• .github contains the workflow files in order to successfully run GitHub Actions.

• Bluesky contains the scripts and files to collect posts tagged with the "#cdnpoli" hashtag on Bluesky.

• YouTube contains the scripts and files to collect Canadian MP video information data from YouTube.

How to Request API Keys

The following links outline how to request and authenticate API keys for each platform:

• Bluesky

• YouTube