When comparing Social Harvest vs Sprout Social, the Slant community recommends Social Harvest for most people. In the question“What are the best social media dashboards?” Social Harvest is ranked 3rd while Sprout Social is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Social Harvest is:
It's built in Go and takes advantage of concurrency allowing it to be quite fast. It can gather and analyze data quickly and efficiently using very little system resources.
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Pros
Pro Fast & efficient due to benefits provided by Go
It's built in Go and takes advantage of concurrency allowing it to be quite fast. It can gather and analyze data quickly and efficiently using very little system resources.
Pro Flexible data storage & workflow
It stores data to several databases natively (including Postgres which is then of course available on Amazon RDS and RedShift, etc.), but also logs out to file on disk. These files can then be picked up by something like Fluentd and then sent literally anywhere. This allows Social Harvest to fit any work flow and act as a stand alone data harvester (without the dashboard part).
Pro It's free and open source
It's free, open source software allowing it to be modified to fit specific needs. It's licensed under GPL v3 with code available on GitHub.
Pro Publish to 4 main social media networks
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn are the 4 main social networks that Sprout Social is able to post to.
Cons
Con Not user friendly yet
Installation is a pain.
Con Has not been updated since 2016
Latest commit on its Github page is from 2016.