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Extracting data from website with dynamic UI element

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Hello guys, I am trying to extract data from a website (https://www.fese.eu/), I want to extract certain values from the several instances in the image, I am having trouble extracting them by right clicking since the selectors don't quite line up and also because when you hover the article the text changes, I was just wondering how to get this information using more advanced options which I am not that familiar with.

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In the first instance I would want to extract where it says either "Position Papers" or "News" and the title of the article, and then when the information changes extract the date and description. How is it possible to do that?

 

Thank you in advance for any help!

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    Pavel_NaNoi Profile Picture
    1,074 on at

    There indeed is,

     

    Press F12 on your browser on the page, and then press the "Select Element" button on it, afterwards select the field you want to extract, as shown in my screenshot below:

    Pavel_NaNoi_0-1696350880890.png

    This will boot you to the element select you wish to use, afterwards, simply right click the element, and select "Copy Full Xpath"

    Now to use this path, you'll need to replace a few symbols with PADs' equivalent, (can usually just do it through Notepad really quickly)

    E.g. this is what I got:

    /html/body/div[2]/div/div/div/main/article/section[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div[2]/h3

    and I need to replace all the /'s and [#]'s with this:

    html > body >div:eq(1) > div> div> div > main > article >section:eq(0) > div > div:eq(0) > div > div:eq(0) > div:eq(1) > h3

    Note that each number in brackets has also been reduced by 1, this is intentional.

    Now just either paste this in the advanced options of the Extract data from webpage, or create any web selector and put this into it via the "text editor"

    and you should be done.

  • TelmoERF96 Profile Picture
    170 on at

    It worked, thank you so much for your time and answer, this is a huge help moving forward.

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