Rousillon: Scraping Distributed Hierarchical Web Data
Introduces Rousillon, which generalizes a demonstration of collecting one hierarchical data row into a browser-automation program that traverses related pages. The paper develops relation-selection and generalization methods and evaluates users building such scripts.
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- Resource type
- Research papers
- Environment
- web
- Topics
- web-navigation, recording, automation
- Record publication date
- 2018
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- 2026-10-17T09:55:12Z
- Resource ID
- url:97c0b1896525632434e2
Authors
Sarah E. Chasins, Maria Mueller, Rastislav Bodik
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- Title
- Rousillon: Scraping Distributed Hierarchical Web Data
- Authors
- Sarah E. Chasins, Maria Mueller, Rastislav Bodik
- Publication date (recorded precision)
- 2018
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
- DOI
- 10.1145/3242587.3242661
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Date source: Supplied year precision: 2018. Rousillon entry: UIST 2018
Source notes: This is browser interaction learned from demonstrations, rather than a generic server-side crawling library. Final proceedings page range and volume are not established. Manuscript pages 1-13 are not substituted for publisher pagination. Exact publication month/day is not inferred from conference dates.
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