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Welcome to the 4CAT wiki!

We try to keep this wiki complete and up-to-date, but certain information might be missing or outdated. You can always send an email to 4cat [at] oilab.eu with questions.

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• If you want to install 4CAT yourself, check Installing 4CAT or Upgrading 4CAT and our recommendations for the type of hardware to run it on.
• If you want to know more about 4CAT's features, check our overview of:
  • Available data sources, or:
  • Available dataset processors
• If you want to know more about 4CAT's design, or develop your own 4CAT data sources or processors, check our developer guide
• If you want to know about 4CAT's approach to ethics and data privacy, this page has information about our perspective on this and the relevant features.
• For user-friendly tutorials, check out our YouTube channel and our playlist of tutorial videos.
• Take a look at Zeeschuimer, the browser extension that can capture data from TikTok and Instagram and export it to 4CAT for analysis.

You can cite 4CAT (which would make its authors very happy):

• Peeters, S., & Hagen, S. (2022). The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit: A Modular Tool for Transparent and Traceable Social Media Research. Computational Communication Research, 4(2): 571-589.

We have a website that collects all available 4CAT resources (also outside of GitHub):

• https://4cat.nl

Or browse the full list of pages on the right 👉