From a860818df30a0ce60e65692fb29577e90d14123b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Schabesberger Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 23:49:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add introduction --- docs/index.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index a556916..3394efa 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# Welcome to the NewPipe Documentaiton. +j# Welcome to the NewPipe Documentaiton. This side is a beginner friendly tutorial and documentatin for people who want to use, or write services for the [NewPipe Extractor](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor). This however is an addition to our [jdoc documentation](https://teamnewpipe.github.io/NewPipeExtractor/javadoc/). @@ -8,3 +8,10 @@ This tutorial and the documentation are in an early state. So [feedback](https:/ ## Stay Tuned Tune yourself to stay ;D + +## Introduction + +The NewPipeExtractor is a java framework for scraping video platform websites in a way that they can be accedes like a normal API. The extractor is the core of the popular Youtube and streaming app [NewPipe](https://newpipe.schabi.org) for android, however it's system independent and also available for other platforms. + +The beauty behind the NewPipeExtractor is that is takes care about the extraction process, error handling etc., so you can take care about what is important: Scraping the website. +It focuses on making it possible for the creator of a scraper for a streaming service to create best outcome by least amount of self written code.