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Introduction to writing spiders and agents
		You can have a lot of fun with the Internet by ditching your browser in favor of writing special purpose programs that look for -- or do -- very specific things on the Internet.
		This session will equip you with techniques to extract and interact with data from web sites without a browser, parse and filter data, follow links, deal with encryption and passwords, and manage terabytes of information.
		You'll also learn why writing these programs is a useful activity, and walk away with ideas and abilities to write useful spiders or web agents of your own design.