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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
8736
Venue
VLDB
Year
2001
Pagerank
0.00020739037
Overall Rank
534 | 96.30%
DOI
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586 Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001963091
653 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00018616975
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1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
1,855 An Analysis of Structured Data on the Web 2012 VLDB 0.00010319508
2,368 Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax 2004 SIGMOD 8.9496022e-05
2,428 Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing 2004 VLDB 8.8293516e-05
3,286 Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables 2004 SIGMOD 7.2692403e-05
3,679 Automatic Wrappers for Large Scale Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 6.8460927e-05
3,693 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.8326441e-05
3,721 Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web 2005 CIDR 6.8139343e-05
3,751 Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction 2007 VLDB 6.7861406e-05
3,922 On the Complexity of Deriving Schema Mappings from Database Instances 2008 PODS 6.6238781e-05
4,137 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.4130238e-05
4,438 Robust Web Extraction: An Approach Based on a Probabilistic Tree-Edit Model 2009 SIGMOD 6.1819088e-05
4,705 Object-level Vertical Search 2007 CIDR 5.9776799e-05
5,619 Documentum ECI Self-Repairing Wrappers: Performance Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 5.4077879e-05
5,662 From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources 2010 PODS 5.3854745e-05
6,197 WADaR: Joint Wrapper and Data Repair 2015 VLDB 5.1570343e-05
6,398 RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites 2002 SIGMOD 5.0747167e-05
6,407 CERES: Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction from the Semi-Structured Web 2018 VLDB 5.0691335e-05
6,755 Optimal Schemes for Robust Web Extraction 2011 VLDB 4.9343136e-05
6,994 Web Data Extraction using Hybrid Program Synthesis: A Combination of Top-down and Bottom-up Inference 2020 SIGMOD 4.8634654e-05
7,831 The Smallest Extraction Problem 2021 VLDB 4.6372231e-05
7,919 DEXTER: Large-Scale Discovery and Extraction of Product Specifications on the Web 2015 VLDB 4.6123189e-05
8,456 Visual Segmentation for Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Visually Rich Documents 2019 SIGMOD 4.5018004e-05
8,632 Measuring the Structural Similarity of Semistructured Documents Using Entropy 2007 VLDB 4.4760331e-05
12,266 ObjectRunner: Lightweight, Targeted Extraction and Querying of Structured Web Data 2010 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,288 Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information 2010 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,534 Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections From Search Engine Result Pages 2006 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,599 An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites 2004 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
384 NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Structured and Semistructured Data from Text Documents. 1998 SIGMOD 0.00024774707
1,922 Cut and Paste 1997 PODS 0.00010084845
2,210 To Weave the Web 1997 VLDB 9.2875159e-05
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