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| Author | Barman, Shaon Bodik, Rastislav Gulwani, Sumit Chasins, Sarah |
| Abstract | To build a programming by demonstration (PBD) web scraping tool for end users, one needs two central components: a list finder, and a record and replay tool. A list finder extracts logical tables from a webpage. A record and replay (R+R) system records a user's interactions with a webpage, and replays them programmatically. The research community has invested substantial work in list finding --- variously called wrapper induction, structured data extraction, and template detection. In contrast, researchers largely considered the browser R+R problem solved until recently, when webpage complexity and interactivity began to rise. We argue that the increase in interactivity necessitates the use of new, more robust R+R approaches, which will facilitate the PBD web tools of the future. Because robust R+R is difficult to build and understand, we argue that tool developers need an R+R layer that they can treat as a black box. We have designed an easy-to-use API that allows programmers to use and even customize R+R, without having to understand R+R internals. We have instantiated our API in Ringer, our robust R+R tool. We use the API to implement WebCombine, a PBD scraping tool. A WebCombine user demonstrates how to collect the first row of a relational dataset, and the tool collects all remaining rows. WebCombine uses the Ringer API to handle navigation between pages, enabling users to scrape from modern, interaction-heavy pages. We demonstrate WebCombine by collecting a 3,787,146 row dataset from Google Scholar that allows us to explore the relationship between researchers' years of experience and their papers' citation counts. |
| Starting Page | 179 |
| Ending Page | 182 |
| Page Count | 4 |
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| ISBN | 9781450334730 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2740908.2742849 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2015-05-18 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Automation End-user programming Programming by demonstration Record and replay |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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