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Weboob is a project which provides a core library, modules and applications.
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Overview
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The core library defines capabilities: features common to various websites.
For example, http://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.dailymotion.com/ both
provide videos; Weboob defines the "CapVideo" capability for them.
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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
modules and applications.
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Weboob is written in Python and is distributed under the AGPLv3+ license.
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For more information, please go to the official website at http://weboob.org/
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Installation is described on the website or in the INSTALL file.