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Weboob
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Weboob is a project which provides a core library, modules and applications.
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## Overview
The core library defines capabilities: features common to various websites.
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For example, [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/) and
[Dailymotion](http://www.dailymotion.com/) both provide videos; Weboob defines
the `CapVideo` capability for them.
Each module interfaces with a website and implements one or many of these
capabilities. Modules can be configured (becoming a "backend"), which means
that the end-user can provide personal information to access the underlying
website, like a login and password.
Applications allow the end-user to work with many modules in parallel,
in a multi-threaded way. For example, one could search a video on
many websites at once. Applications are toolkit-agnostic. They can use GTK+,
Qt or be text-only. The latter can be used either in an interactive way
or in pipes.
The core library provides base classes which help developers write
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## Installation
Installation is described on [the website](http://weboob.org) or in the
[INSTALL](INSTALL) file.
## License
Weboob is written in Python and is distributed under the AGPLv3+ license.
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## Documentation
For more information, please go to [the official website](http://weboob.org/).
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Some extra info is available in the [Gitlab
wiki](https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/wikis/home).
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If you are a developper and looking for how to write a module or contribute to
Weboob, you can have a look at the [developper documentation](http://dev.weboob.org/).