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Introduction to writing spiders and agents |
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| Session Goals: | ||
| 1. | Provide basic background information | |
| A brief introduction to client/server protocols | ||
| Ideas for potential web agents and spiders | ||
| Descriptions of methods for downloading pages | ||
| Tips on parsing data | ||
| Suggestions for writing fault-tolerant code | ||
| Hints for what to do with data | ||
| 3. | Convince you that writing these programs is a useful activity | |
| 4. | Give you ideas and abilities to write useful spiders or web agents of your own design. | |