Fetching Website Data

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  1. Blakeasd, Jul 14, 2011

    Blakeasd macrumors 6502a

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    Hello,
    How do I fetch data from a website sort of like these apps:
    WikiBot
    MiniTube
    How do these apps access and search website and display them the way they do. What is this called so I can find some resources on doing it?
    Thanks!
     
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  2. chown33, Jul 14, 2011
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    chown33 macrumors 604

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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.
     
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