4CAT

4CAT

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Toolkit for capturing and analysing data from online platforms. We use this profile for updates on the tool! 🐈🐈🐈🐈 See https://4cat.nl and https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat Follow @digitalmethods.net for more tool updates.

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4CAT
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🚀 4CAT v1.56 is out! This release introduces built-in support for self-hosted LLMs, making it easier to use local or private AI models in your analysis workflows. It also includes platform updates, processor improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Full release notes: github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comRelease v1.56 Hot town, summer in the city · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThis 4CAT update comprises expanded support for LLMs; LLMs from multiple servers and providers can be made available to LLM-using processors, and 4CAT can be run via Docker with an embedded Ollama ...
4CAT
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🐈‍⬛🐈New 1.54 4CAT update 🐈🐈‍⬛ github.com/digitalmetho... 📽️ Show downloaded media in the Explorer. This works for media uploads and social media datasets if images/videos have been downloaded through 4CAT. ✏️ New "Upload annotations" processor that lets you add new data fields to existing datasets. (1/2)

github.comRelease v1.53 4CAT in bloom · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThis 4CAT updates mostly comprises updates and bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as improvements to the Web UI (particularly the Explorer, which can now display downloaded dataset ...
4CAT
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🖼️ Use multimodal models in LLM Prompter to analyze images, videos, and audio, depending on model capabilities. ⚠️ Processors now show warnings after incomplete processing. 🐇 More efficient sharing of resources by processors 👯‍♀️ Download videos through proxies ... and much more.

4CAT
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A small 4CAT update just in time for the holidays - v1.52! 📊 Processors for regression analysis and dataset statistics 🧭 Test LLM prompts from our prompt library with the PromptCompass processor 🤖 Use Deepseek and Gemini 3 APIs with LLM processors 🐛 Many bug fixes! ➡️ github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comRelease v1.52 Winter Wonderland · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThis 4CAT updates mostly comprises bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as a couple of new processors for statistical analysis of datasets and an implementation of PromptCompass as a ...

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Sal Hagen
@hetsalwel.bsky.social

4CAT now contains everything for quite sophisticated classification pipelines with humans and (local) LLMs! I myself used it to classify what types of migration were mentioned in Dutch news articles (see www.groene.nl/artikel/onde...). See all changes below 👇

4CAT@4cat.nl

Just released: 4CAT 1.51 “The R is in the month” Highlights: 📊 Classification evaluation: subpar F1 scores, now in 4CAT 🤖 New LLM processor options #️⃣ Search by #hashtag on Telegram 🖼️ Image hasher: check for duplicate images! 🪰 A LOT of small bug fixes and improvements github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comRelease v1.51 The R Is in the month · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThis updates adds several new processors, to help working with image datasets and LLM-based annotations; many bug fixes and small QoL updates to processors; various bug fixes and updates to mapping...
4CAT
@4cat.nl

Just released: 4CAT 1.51 “The R is in the month” Highlights: 📊 Classification evaluation: subpar F1 scores, now in 4CAT 🤖 New LLM processor options #️⃣ Search by #hashtag on Telegram 🖼️ Image hasher: check for duplicate images! 🪰 A LOT of small bug fixes and improvements github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comRelease v1.51 The R Is in the month · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThis updates adds several new processors, to help working with image datasets and LLM-based annotations; many bug fixes and small QoL updates to processors; various bug fixes and updates to mapping...
4CAT
@4cat.nl

🐈‍⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈‍⬛ This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes. 🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho... 🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comReleases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThe 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
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4CAT
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⚙️ Misc processor improvements: • More processors can now write annotations, like the Whisper processor for audio to text. • Annotations are carried over when filtering • Improved proxy handling for image and metadata downloads • Updated language resources for tokenisation

4CAT
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🌍 Web interface enhancements: • Extension management via the web app • New 'Jobs' page in the control panel • Faster page loads for large datasets • Dataset parameters are now copyable • Expanded API functionality

4CAT
@4cat.nl

🐈‍⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈‍⬛ This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes. 🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho... 🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comReleases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThe 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
4CAT
@4cat.nl

🧠 New: 'LLM Prompter' processor A much more robust and flexible way to analyse datasets with LLMs • More APIs: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Mistral • Support for LM Studio and Ollama to use local (and free) LLMs • Batching of input values to increase speed and reduce cost • Structured outputs

4CAT
@4cat.nl

🎞️ New: 'Video Wall' processor Create collages from video datasets. Ideal for exploration and presentation of audiovisual materials (and to overstimulate yourself with Italian Brainrot memes). 📈 Other new processors: • 'Confusion Matrix' for evaluation • 'Replace Text' to change any text value

4CAT
@4cat.nl

🔔New 4CAT version: 1.49🔔 🔎 Explorer revamp: Investigate datasets through an interface that mimics the original data source. Sort your data, make manual field notes, or add processor-made annotations. 🧰 Data source updates 🦜 Zeeschuimer import fixes Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...

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4CAT
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🔎The Explorer lets you examine datasets in a rich environment where social media posts are "reassembled" to look like their original appearance. You can sort data, make manual annotations like field notes, or let (LLM-)processors add categories and notes. How to use: github.com/digitalmetho...

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Digital Methods Initiative
@digitalmethods.net

🦜 New Zeeschuimer release 🦜 📌📕 New modules for Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu! Capture data from these platforms directly with Zeeschuimer—and export them to the newest version of 4CAT (also out now) for further analysis. github.com/digitalmetho... Updates automatically if installed already!

github.comRelease v1.12.1 Pinterest fixes · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimerThis public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Enable capture on Pinterest subdomains (e.g. https://nl.pinterest.com) Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1
4CAT
@4cat.nl

🔔 We just released a new 4CAT version, v1.47! Some highlights: 📥 Data capture from Bluesky, Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu 🤖 Prompt-based coding and annotation of data via the OpenAI API 🛠️ New & updated data fields for datasets from TikTok, Instagram, & co Read more: github.com/digitalmetho...

github.comReleases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThe 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
@kingsdh.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce the launch of KingsCAT 🐱, a new @4cat.nl instance to support social media research at King's created by @digitalmethods.net @oilab.bsky.social hosted by @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gather-... 🎊✨

kcl.ac.uk'Gather, explore, collaborate' – new toolkit to enrich digital culture…KingsCAT is a cross-faculty initiative coordinated by the Digital Future Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and the Department of Digital Humanities in collaboration with e-Research and…
4CAT
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KingsCAT😸👑

Centre for Digital Culture@digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Look forward to this workshop on social media data capture and analysis with @4cat.nl - and launching KingsCAT, a new instance of the tool running on a dedicated server 🐱 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/socia...

kcl.ac.ukSocial media data capture and analysis with 4CATIn this workshop, lead developer Stijn Peeters introduces participants to the widely used 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit for social media research.

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Digital Methods Initiative
@digitalmethods.net

🔔 New version out for Zeeschuimer, our tool for capturing social media data from the browser! This brings it up to speed with Instagram's latest updates, fixing the capture of posts from Location and Tag pages. 💾 Get it here: github.com/digitalmetho... ⬆️ Already installed it? It will auto-update!

github.comGitHub - digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer: A browser extension to collect social media data with.A browser extension to collect social media data with. - digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer
4CAT
@4cat.nl

🍂 Release v1.46: Autumn Additions 🍂 - Add custom data sources and processors as 'extensions' (see t.ly/WQc4Z) - Import Threads data from Zeeschuimer - Import and export datasets as zip files - Crawl Telegram based on mentions and links - LLM processor for text classification And more: t.ly/psaqe

4CAT
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Hellooo world! We'll use this profile for informal updates and questions regarding the 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit. If you want to check out what's new with 4CAT outside of BlueSky, check out the GitHub releases github.com/digitalmetho... Stay tuned for exciting new features 🐈🐈🐈🐈

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