I am a PhD student interested in social movements and cultural change. I would like to use
change.org data to investigate what kinds of issues get the most attention, why, and by whom. This would include evaluating the content and sentiment of petition texts (including users' 'reasons for signing'), promotion data (including links to news outlets), and success statistics (e.g. number of signers). I do not need identity data for this (although the gender, sex, and region breakdown of petition signers would be useful). Is there a way for me to use an API to access summary data of all
change.org petitions over a certain timeframe? Alternatively, is scraping the website for this information allowed?