HDSampler: Revealing Data Behind Web Form Interfaces

Summary: HDSampler is the first practical system for sampling structured hidden web databases via web forms. It enables efficient sampling and accurate aggregate queries, demonstrated on Google Base to reveal marginal attribute distributions in minutes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4224
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
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Overall Rank: 13,543 | 5.79%
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13,411	HDBTracker: Monitoring the Aggregates On Dynamic Hidden Web Databases	2014	VLDB	-

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5,140	A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases	2007	SIGMOD	5.668209e-05

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