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Copy-and-paste programming, sometimes referred to as just pasting, is the production of highly repetitive computer programming code, as produced by copy and paste operations. It is primarily a pejorative term; those who use the term are often implying a lack of programming competence and ability to create abstractions.
As an example, consider a weather sensor that offers an API. When a certain message is transmitted to the sensor, it will detect the current weather conditions and reply with a weather report. The message that activates the sensor is an API call, and the weather report is an API response. [7]
An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...
Classified advertising is a form of advertising, particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals, which may be sold or distributed free of charge. Classified advertisements are much cheaper than larger display advertisements used by businesses, [ 1 ] although display advertising is more widespread. [ 2 ]
Once the bot has been approved and given its bot flag permission, one can add "bot=True" to the API call - see mw:API:Edit#Parameters in order to hide the bot's edits in Special:RecentChanges. In Python, using either mwclient or wikitools, then adding bot=True to the edit/save command will set the edit as a bot edit - e.g. PageObject.edit(text ...
ads.txt, a standard for listing authorized ad sellers; security.txt, a file to describe the process for security researchers to follow in order to report security vulnerabilities; eBay v. Bidder's Edge; Automated Content Access Protocol – A failed proposal to extend robots.txt; BotSeer – Now inactive search engine for robots.txt files
The API allows clients to search or browse Amazon.com's product catalog; to retrieve detailed product information, reviews, and images; and to interface with customer shopping carts. Purchases at Amazon through a third-party website or application allows the operators of that site to earn up to 8.5% in referral fees.
A bot once created up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia in a day. [8] According to Andrew Lih, the current expansion of Wikipedia to millions of articles would be difficult to envision without the use of such bots. [9] The Cebuano, Swedish and Waray Wikipedias are known to have high numbers of bot-created content. [10]