Template extraction is the process of isolating the template of a given webpage. It is widely used in several disciplines, including webpages development, content extraction, block detection, and webpages indexing. One of the main goals of template extraction is identifying a set of webpages with the same template without having to load and analyze too many webpages prior to identifying the template. This work introduces a new technique to automatically discover a reduced set of webpages in a

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... bsite that implement the template. This set is computed with an hyperlink analysis that computes a very small set with a high level of confidence.