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So I created my flow perfectly but the pager function keeps clicking next even if there are no more pages. please help me with this issue. Thanks i

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This is a common issue. The pager functionality does not work very well. It only works in the rare cases when it is possible to build the pager element selector in a way where it no longer exists when you reach the last page.
You can either try to extract a fixed number of pages, or simply instead of doing paging, make a flow that:
Creates a data table
Loops through pages (either a simple loop if you can retrieve the number of pages initially, or a while loop that stops when there are not pages remaining)
For each page, Extracts data from the web page
Adds all of the data it extracted to the data table it created in step 1
Stops the loop when there are no more pages remaining
This is usually the approach we use in most cases. See this video for a sample of how to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvoUBwCqdn0

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Thank you. My web page don't have the code like his. I guess I have to do another search.

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The fact that your page is not identical to what the video shows, does not mean the same approach cannot be applied. You can try looking into it and see if there are ways in which you can do that. For example, if your web page URL has the page index, you could also simply build the URL with a new index and use Go to web page action each time you want to open the next page.

The main idea of the video is on how to build a table that you keep appending new values from each page to, instead of expecting the Extract data from web page action to work properly with the pager functionality.

All sorts of options are usually available, but it is quite difficult to comment anything without knowing and seeing the web page.

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