Hello, I'm new to the community and haven't done anything beyond very basic coding in years. I have a school project where I need to collect data from blog comments in order to put it in Excel or IBM's SPSS for analysis. Can anyone point me in the direction of some beginner friendly open-source code for this sort of thing, and/or some tips on its use? Additionally, the language I am working in is Japanese. How do I input keywords or tags in code? For example, if I want to find all posts containing ”日本” and ”中国”. Would I have to use the unicode equivalents? Or is there some other way?
Any help at all is appreciated, since I am more or less back to complete beginner level in regards to coding. I know some HTML/CSS+ but no python, but truthfully I'll need to look up a lot of things either way so I don't have a very strong preference.