What is Weboob

Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.

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Why use Weboob

  • You get information faster
  • You can script around Weboob to automate tasks
  • It extends websites features
  • It helps blind people use crappy websites

What sets Weboob apart

  • Focus on quality applications, not just a limited script
  • Not tied to a particular website, no need to learn many interfaces
  • Continuous integration notifies developers if a website has changed
  • Graphical, textual, or programming interfaces for the same capabilities
  • The update system allows pushing fixes quickly to end users
Get it!

Technologies

  • Weboob is written in Python
  • It leverages, but is not limited to, mechanize and lxml
  • Graphical applications use Qt
  • git is used for collaboration
  • It is distributed under the AGPL license

Contact

Email

Send us an email at weboob@weboob.org.

Mailing list

Subscribe to the mailing list and read the older threads in the archives.

IRC

Join #weboob on Freenode.

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