OXPath: A Language for Scalable, Memory-efficient Data Extraction from Web Applications

Summary: OXPath extends XPath with web-application interaction and precise extraction of dynamically revealed data. Page-at-a-time evaluation makes memory independent of visited pages (polynomial time), outperforming existing extractors and scaling near browser-rendering cost. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10356
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.3682755e-05
Overall Rank: 8,805 | 39.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402709

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Authors

1. Tim Furche (University of Oxford)
2. Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford)
3. Giovanni Grasso (University of Oxford)
4. Christian Schallhart (University of Oxford)
5. Andrew Sellers (University of Oxford)

BibTeX Citation

@article{furche_vldb11,
        title = {{OXPath: A Language for Scalable, Memory-efficient Data Extraction from Web Applications}},
        author = {Furche, Tim and Gottlob, Georg and Grasso, Giovanni and Schallhart, Christian and Sellers, Andrew},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1016--1027},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402709},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402709},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,641	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over XML Streams	2012	SIGMOD	6.5913488e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
319	Declarative Information Extraction Using Datalog with Embedded Extraction Predicates	2007	VLDB	0.00021377065
1,178	Building light-weight wrappers for legacy Web data-sources using W4F	1999	VLDB	0.00011806558
2,564	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.4118854e-05

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