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Is it possible to retrieve data from list items which is not assigned specific tag or id?

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I need to retrieve specific data of each items in list in web page. But that data is not showed in web page, and also doesn't assigned id or tag. Here is a sample of one of items. (each items has same style information)

 

<td>
<span>
<button type="button" class="btn-normal btn-bgnone" onclick="vmLocator.getListVM().onDownloadBtnClicked(event)">
<i class="icon_manager icon-down"></i>
<span class="text-size" style="display: none;">https://www.(classified).com/download/55a87212d73149628f28d476966c6922</span>
</button>
<div class="text-size">626.4 MB</div>
</span>
</td> 

 

What I need is URL part(https://www.(classified).com/download/55a87212d73149628f28d476966c6922) of each items. But this part has no name, no tag. 

Is it possible to get that with Power Automate Desktop flow?

Thank you.

 

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  • Gematria Profile Picture
    222 on at

    Hi.

    It depends on the webpage, but if there are no elements you can extract the data from directly you can try 2 routes:

    1. Extract everything from the Webpage and Parse the resulting data and split it so you get a list of all the URLs that you are looking for.

    2. Manually add a UI Element (This can be difficult to get to work in my experience)

     

    If you go down the first route, you can use the action: Get details of web page and extract all Web page text into a Variable.

    Then you can extract the text from the variable using Parse text and a Regular Expression to match the URLs.

     

    Assuming all the URLs are the same type and no other comparable URLs exists on the page, the RegEx could look like this:

    https:\/\/www\..*\.com\/download\/[0-9,A-Z,a-z]*

     

    Example picture:

    Gematria_0-1685518523415.png

    Gematria_1-1685518602660.png

     

     

    This should give you all the matches that are available on the website, but without access to the site or the complete underlying HTML it is difficult to give you any more guidance 🙂

     

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Takuya 

     

    Agreeing with @Gematria  said, in addition since the above html structure is that of table, i would recommend to try extract data from webpage in form of table. Hope that would help you !

     

     

  • Takuya Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Thank you everyone, and sorry for late reply.

    With your suggestions and various helpful information from Internet, I was able to get the data I needed in the following way.

    At first, I got CSS selector for each item by DevTools of Chrome browser as below.

     

    • item 1(Title)
      #xn-manager-contents-list > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(6) > td.td-align-left > a > span
    • item 2(Author)
      #xn-manager-contents-list > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(6) > td:nth-child(4)
    • item 3(User ID)
      #xn-manager-contents-list > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(6) > td:nth-child(5) > a > span
    • item 4(URL)
      #xn-manager-contents-list > table > tbody > tr:nth-child(6) > td:nth-child(16) > span > button > span

    then, I selected 'Extract Data from Webpage' action, and after switched to Live Web Helper window, select 'Advanced settings'.

    After that, selected extract type to 'Table', and set 'Base CSS selector' and 'CSS selector' for each items as below.

    ExtractDataFromWebpage.png

     

     

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