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It might be called something like "page scraping" or "webpage scraping".
Some of what WikiBot does is just caching and storing for later. You can do that using the DOM of a web page, getting all the anchors and links, downloading, then storing for later.
YouTube has an API, and that would be my first guess of what minitube is using.
Some of what WikiBot does is just caching and storing for later. You can do that using the DOM of a web page, getting all the anchors and links, downloading, then storing for later.
YouTube has an API, and that would be my first guess of what minitube is using.
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