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I am trying to extract links from a table.

When I set the attribute to Own Text the Web Helper Preview gives a list of all the link text.

When I change the attribute to href I get a list of repeating values that are not the correct links. Except for the first, they are all the same. The links are not being extracted properly

I have included the 2 screenshots.

The first shows the actual table and the preview results with attribute = Own Text

The second shows the case with attribute =href.

Please advise

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I am the OP. I did a little more investigation.

My flow is in screenshot
When I looked at the values in the List, when I ran the action they were different I got an error in the Go To Webpage Action.
The error stated that the URL was not valid, Make sure you are using an absolute URL So Im stuck on how to extract the links

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Still the OP.
When I copied ythe link and pasted it into notepad it was
https://www.hcdistrictclerk.com/Edocs/Public/search.aspx#
Which is what was being extracted. Unfortunately That is not going to be useful so I will need a different approach

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It seems like your elements do not actually contain a valid Href there. You either need to look at a different element that would contain it, or there might be some JavaScript function at play there that runs when you click on the element, in which case the URLs are not available at all. Is there a direct URL available when you actually click on any given element?
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