An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites

Summary: Automatically models large data-intensive websites intensionally as classes of structurally homogeneous pages with representative instances. It then infers one wrapper per class, using an external wrapper generator, enabling systematic site navigation and extraction. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9285
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,783 | 12.30%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50137-6

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Authors

1. Valter Crescenzi (Roma Tre University)
2. Giansalvatore Mecca (University of Basilicata)
3. Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre University)
4. Paolo Missier (Roma Tre University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{crescenzi_vldb04,
        title = {{An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites}},
        author = {Crescenzi, Valter and Mecca, Giansalvatore and Merialdo, Paolo and Missier, Paolo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {1321--1324},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50137-6},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50137-6},
        year = {2004}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
340	Crawling the Hidden Web	2001	VLDB	0.00020711119
503	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00017314037
588	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.00016092668
6,711	RoadRunner: Automatic Data Extraction from Data-Intensive Web Sites	2002	SIGMOD	5.7963597e-05

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