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I have a workflow where I navigate to a web page via "Click link on web page". This pulls up a website with a table with each cell containing an image. I want to save the image in a specific directory but without downloading the image again. The image already exists in the local cache so somehow this must be possible. But how do I achieve this? Note that "<img alt src="..."" has an absolute path like "https://...". I am not sure if that makes a difference or not to retrieve the image locally rather than downloading it again.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @maladu

Other way would be retriving the src attribute and then use that to download it using the below action.

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@Nived_Nambiar thanks for the response. But wouldn't that download the image twice? Since I first do a "Click link on web page", it will navigate to that website and download all the images. I could then browse the html code and look for the src attribute and then download it. So basically, it downloads it twice rather than getting it from the local cache.

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Why exactly is that important? The local cache will be cleared after a while anyway. If you need the images, the easiest way is to download them from the page via their URLs.

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@Agnius I am doing website scraping. Many websites don't like that. So I try to avoid downloading an image twice, once by browsing to the website and then by downloading each the image again. It's a complete give-away that someone is scraping a website when this happens. Hence, I want to get it from the cache.

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