Given that many companies and institutions need to access outside data for better decision making, they have to rely on automated Web data extraction programs, also known as wrappers.
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This statement is, of course, wrong: Web data relevant to most applications is distributed over heterogeneously structured websites, usually does not come with a schema, and cannot be directly queried, except by manual keyword search. “The Web is the largest database” is a sentence one sometimes hears. We discuss research challenges for extending our approach to a general method applicable to a yet larger number of cases. This system works in the vast majority of test cases and produces very fast and extremely resource-efficient wrappers. We present the first algorithm and system performing such an automated translation on suitably restricted types of web sites. In this paper, we demonstrate the principal feasibility of automatically translating browser-based wrappers into “browserless” wrappers.
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However, creating and maintaining browserless wrappers of high precision requires specialists, and is prohibitively labor-intensive at scale.
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In contrast, it is magnitudes more resource-efficient to use a “browserless” wrapper which directly accesses a web server through HTTP requests, and takes the desired data directly from the raw replies. Such scrapers (or wrappers) are therefore expensive to execute, in terms of time and network traffic. Most modern web scrapers use an embedded browser to render web pages and to simulate user actions.