Abstract:
Most of today’s Internet users are registered to one or more social media applications.
As so many are registered to multiple applications, it has become difficult to locate
friends, former colleagues, peers and acquaintances. Reasons for this include private
profiles, name collisions, multiple usernames, lack of profile attributes and profile
picture.
In this project we are developing an online web platform that will gather information
from different social media platforms and combine it into one single web application
which will show a proper footprint of a person searched for. We have used
technologies like Node.js/Express for Server side handling, Nightmare.js for web
scraping and React.js for our view layer to build this online platform and to collect
the data needed to bring all required information from social media websites which
then will be displayed on our platforms. This paper discusses about the current
platforms that are working similar to the one we are developing. The main aim of
this project is to help people gather information about a person through all his social
media presence over different platforms. This paper further discusses the
methodologies used for data gathering and information retrieval of a person, i.e. how
data of a single person shall be retrieved from different platforms and compiled
together at one single website.Due to the nature of project, we rely on data from other social platform for which we
clarify that no ethical boundaries were crossed by us and we have respected the rules
& policies regarding the user data on different social platform like
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedln.
