Web Connector: A Unified API Wrapper to Simplify Web Data Collection
Summary: Web Connector provides a unified, relational-DB-like API wrapper layer that standardizes heterogeneous Web APIs, letting analysts query disparate services with a familiar read-from-table interface. It minimizes wrapper development using reusable API description files and a semi-automatic generation-by-example tool to create new wrappers without code. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Weiyuan Wu (Simon Fraser University)
- 2. Pei Wang (Simon Fraser University)
- 3. Yi Xie (Simon Fraser University)
- 4. Yejia Liu (Simon Fraser University)
- 5. George Chow (Simon Fraser University)
- 6. Jiannan Wang (Simon Fraser University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wu_vldb23,
title = {{Web Connector: A Unified API Wrapper to Simplify Web Data Collection}},
author = {Wu, Weiyuan and Wang, Pei and Xie, Yi and Liu, Yejia and Chow, George and Wang, Jiannan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {12},
pages = {4042--4045},
doi = {10.14778/3611540.3611616},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611540.3611616},
year = {2023}
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