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Search for Text Data Sets: Social Media & More

Social Media

Check the social media platform's developer platform to see if they have an API or other access information. You may also search to see if another researcher has collected a relevant dataset and made it available.

Twitter API for Academic researchers
New and existing Twitter developers need to complete an Academic Research application to access the API.
Facebook: Meta Data for Independent Research
Meta provides four levels of access for research: Ad Library Tools, CrowdTangle, Data for Good, Facebook Open Research and Transparency.
Reddit API documentation
Automatically-generated documentation for the Reddit API.

Machine Learning Data Sets

Hugging Face Data Sets
Hugging Face is focused on Natural Language Processing(NLP) tasks and has various text datasets.

Linguistics Corpora

Oxford Dictionaries API

Public Opinion

Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
Public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. If a dataset is available, icons will indicate in downloadable format(s).

Song Lyrics

Genius API
Genius is a collection of song lyrics
Instructions for Scraping Song Lyrics from Genius.com
The Genius API doesn’t provide a way to download the lyrics. You will need to use something like Beautiful Soup (Python package).