Data (Tab operations)
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Description
This action is designed to get data from a page.
How to add an action to a project?
Through the context menu Add Action → Tabs → Data
Or use smart search .
What is it used for?
Find and save the information you need from the page
Check if there are any values on the page
Parse text from page
Take page url
How to work with an action?
1. What to take
Select the type of data you want to take
DOM - document object model;
Source - the source code of the page;
Text - the visible text of the page;
URL - link address from the address bar.
Difference between Source and Dom
2. Which tab
Select the tab from which to take data:
Active - the current active tab;
First - if there are several tabs, then take the first one in a row;
By name - specify the name of the tab;
By number - indicate the number of the tab, if there are several.
3. Process only the specified tags
If you need to process only one or a few specific HTML tags, then activate the checkbox and select the necessary options.
4. Parse the result
If you need to parse the result, you can do this by specifying the desired Regex regular expression, the number and numbers of matches, as well as where to save the result - to a variable or table. You can find the required regular expression using the Regular Expression Tester .
The controls that appear when the Parse data setting is enabled are the same as for Text Processing-Regex (there you will find a more detailed description).
To get data from the page, there is a more convenient tool - Parse data
Usage example
Let's take all the links on the page. We select to take DOM or Source, parse the result and specify the regular expression Regex:
(?<=href=")http.*?(?=")
Take all values and put the result in the list.
As a result, the list will contain all the links on this page.
Useful links