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:::::The question was " Is there any way to automate or semi-automate their upload?" [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] ([[User talk:Pigsonthewing|talk]]) 21:37, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

:::::The question was " Is there any way to automate or semi-automate their upload?" [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] ([[User talk:Pigsonthewing|talk]]) 21:37, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

::::::I would assume it would be fairly easy (for someone else, not me yet) to cook up a bot run to grab the tweets and linked files, given a list of the tweets (or the tweets' URLs) that have been human-inspected to make sure they don't have license/attribution problems. --[[User:Closeapple|Closeapple]] ([[User talk:Closeapple|talk]]) 01:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

::::::I would assume it would be fairly easy (for someone else, not me yet) to cook up a bot run to grab the tweets and linked files, given a list of the tweets (or the tweets' URLs) that have been human-inspected to make sure they don't have license/attribution problems. --[[User:Closeapple|Closeapple]] ([[User talk:Closeapple|talk]]) 01:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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:::::::Yes it is very easy to do. There are plenty of bots copying from other projects, you just find someone who likes to write scripts and ask. In my case, a new friend came out of nowhere with an offer to help with a project I outlined on a sub-page of a userpage and wrote a much more complicated bot just like that. 'Was incredible. The people at [[commons:BRFA]] would know, though they don't do much talking sometimes, there are category lists of bots, start on the userpage of a bot and click the categories.

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:::::::or just check recent uploads on the left of this page, there are plenty of people who copy things from outside projects, click 'show bots' [[User:Penyulap|'''Penyulap''']][[User talk:Penyulap| ☏]] 04:57, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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