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RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites

Summary: RoadRunner enables automatic data extraction from large web sites by generating wrappers via HTML page similarity/difference analysis. Real-world data-intensive site experiments demonstrate feasibility and scalability of the wrapper generation approach. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8735
Venue
VLDB
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00020757722
Overall Rank
533 | 96.30%
DOI
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587 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.00019648348
652 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00018634477
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1,317 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012625853
1,851 An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web 2012 VLDB 0.00010327871
2,362 Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax 2004 SIGMOD 8.9582251e-05
2,425 Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing 2004 VLDB 8.8376569e-05
3,285 Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables 2004 SIGMOD 7.2759001e-05
3,678 Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 6.8517545e-05
3,690 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.8384476e-05
3,724 Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web 2005 CIDR 6.8173288e-05
3,747 Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction 2007 VLDB 6.7917216e-05
3,921 On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances 2008 PODS 6.6301252e-05
4,137 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.4181549e-05
4,440 Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model 2009 SIGMOD 6.187819e-05
4,707 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9810753e-05
5,609 Documentum ECI Self-Repairing Wrappers: Performance Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 5.4129892e-05
5,652 From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources 2010 PODS 5.3903671e-05
6,195 WADaR: Joint Wrapper and Data Repair 2015 VLDB 5.1618114e-05
6,403 RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites 2002 SIGMOD 5.0797045e-05
6,412 CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web 2018 VLDB 5.0740036e-05
6,751 Optimal Schemes for Robust Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 4.939042e-05
6,996 Web Data Extraction using Hybrid Program Synthesis: A Combination of Top-down and Bottom-up Inference 2020 SIGMOD 4.8681362e-05
7,826 The Smallest Extraction Problem 2021 VLDB 4.6416742e-05
7,919 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 4.616746e-05
8,461 Visual Segmentation for Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Visually Rich Documents 2019 SIGMOD 4.5061205e-05
8,632 Measuring the Structural Similarity of Semistructured Documents Using Entropy 2007 VLDB 4.4803734e-05
12,258 ObjectRunner: Lightweight, Targeted Extraction and Querying of Structured Web Data 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,280 Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,525 Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections From Search Engine Result Pages 2006 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,590 An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites 2004 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
385 NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents. 1998 SIGMOD 0.00024795739
1,919 Cut and Paste 1997 PODS 0.00010094755
2,204 To Weave the Web 1997 VLDB 9.2970809e-05
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