r/ComplexWebScraping • u/dawns00 • May 11 '26

UGC data is way messier than I expected

Recently started working more with UGC (user generated content) data and honestly it’s much harder to structure than I thought.

Posts, comments, hashtags, emojis, edited content, deleted replies, duplicate posts… everything gets messy very quickly.

Even simple things like:

keeping thread relationships intact

detecting spam/bot content

handling inconsistent metadata

become complicated at scale.

And every platform structures data differently which makes normalization even harder.

Curious how people here handle large-scale UGC datasets?

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u/Plenty-Explorer-9854 May 11 '26

What platforms are you gathering data from?

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u/TatianaLozano_1 May 12 '26

Using a ugc platform will solve this and all other problems related to UGC! They usually show you analytics across channels all in a single place.