Our paper, Fuse: A Reproducible, Extendable, Internet-scale Corpus of Spreadsheets, has been accepted to the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories.

Fuse is obtained by filtering through 1.9 petabytes of raw data from Common Crawl, using Amazon Web Services. See our Fuse Spreadsheet Corpus project page for details on obtaining the spreadsheets and using the spreadsheet metadata.

The abstract of the paper follows:

Spreadsheets are perhaps the most ubiquitous form of end-user programming software. This paper describes a corpus, called Fuse, containing 2,127,284 URLs that return spreadsheets (and their HTTP server responses), and 249,376 unique spreadsheets, contained within a public web archive of over 26.83 billion pages. Obtained using nearly 60,000 hours of computation, the resulting corpus exhibits several useful properties over prior spreadsheet corpora, including reproducibility and extendability. Our corpus is unencumbered by any license agreements, available to all, and intended for wide usage by end-user software engineering researchers. In this paper, we detail the data and the spreadsheet extraction process, describe the data schema, and discuss the trade-offs of Fuse with other corpora.