Compare Lists is a free, web-based tool for comparing text from two lists of URLs supplied by the user. This tool was developed and is maintained by the Digital Methods Initiative.

The Google Blogsearch Scraper is a free, web-based tool for batch querying Google Blog Search. Users can submit a list of URLs to search, and a set of keywords to apply to them. For each query, the tool supplies a tag cloud and an HTML table, plus a text file that may be downloaded for further analysis.

Netvizz is a free, web-based tool for extracting datasets from Facebook. As the tool utilizes Facebook Apps, users must have a Facebook account to access it.

NetvizzToSentiStrength is a free, web-based sentiment analysis tool for short texts, designed to work particularly with a Netvizz search of Facebook data. In addition to Netvizz data, it also accepts DMI-TCAT and CSV files. 

Google News Scraper is a free, web-based tool for batch querying news.google.com. Users can specify search terms, news sources, date range, location, language, version of Google (ex. .com, .ca, .co.uk, etc.), and what facets to include in the output. The tool returns the results as a table suitable for further analysis, and can also include thumbnail images for each search item.

Googlescraper (Lippmannian Device) is a free, web-based tool for querying Google and saving the results for analysis. It allow users to specify URLs, keywords, and which keywords apply to each URL. The tool outputs as HTML, a tag cloud, and a text file. The tool must be used with FireFox, and requires users to first install the DMI toolbar, which permits the tool to work around Google's block against automated requests.

Compare Networks Over Time is a free, web-based tool for comparing Issuecrawler networks, or data from a regularly scheduled crawl. The tool displays ranked actor lists for each comparison, in a format suitable for graphing via spreadsheet software. Tool input must be in XML format. Compare Networks Over Time is designed to be used particularly with output from the Govcom Foundation's Issuecrawler tool.

The Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network is a free, web-based tool for ranking pages based on inlink counts from a user-supplied Issuecrawler XML file. It outputs a three-column table with numbers, the inlink count from the core network, and the inlink count from the periphery of the network.

Issue Discovery is a tool for extracting the most prominent words and phrases from user-supplied URLs, texts or Issuecrawler XML result files. It is designed as a heuristic for data exploration rather than as an empirical tool.

The Lippmannian Device to Gephi is a free, web-based tool for converting the output of the Digital Methods Association's Googlescraper (Lippmannian Device) tool to a format suitable for Gephi visualization. From a Googlescraper file, it generates a GEXF file with defined nodes and weighted edges based on the queries and URLs in the original file. Once loaded into Gephi, the nodes can be resized to emphasize the most important query/URL combinations.