I'm busy planning a research project regarding the online use of and behaviour towards information and data sources by the public. As part of this I want to monitor and analyse the way people use information (statistics etc) in conversations online and while robert kozinets in his book on netnography recommends manually doing this through screengrabs and text dumps of the discussions being studied I was wondering if there are any programmes that anyone on here knows of which will automatically retrieve the text from the sites I am studying?

Obviously this would be population whose permission has been asked beforehand and the automated data collection would be to allow the researcher to concentrate on more analysis rather than collection.

Ideally something prepackaged with the minimum coding experience needed would be ideal as I'm a social/information scientist not a computer programming type.