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Blakeasd

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Dec 29, 2009
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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!
 
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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