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Help with extracting links from a website using automate desktop

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I've been trying to extract links to a pdf file from this website I'm very new to power automate i'm using it for creation of a study sheet where i could look into text from a legal decision and it's link in another cell i could mass extract the text from the website but i'm unable to get Href or link from this particular website ( https://esaj.tjsp.jus.br/gcn-frontend-vue/parecer/consulta ) what solutions can I take to get link from all the elements after doing my search??

First the search

the results are shown like that and clicking the "eye button" it opens another tab with a pdf file

And I would it either like to get the link for each of the result (as href attribute) or download all of the files(file below)

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Sayan 818 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hey @Arthur22 from this website are you trying to extract the links from the below hyperlinks,

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Sayan Patra | RPA Developer

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I'm trying to get the links from here

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mathiaskjeldsen 224 on at

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Hey @Arthur22

Doesn't look like the URL is stored and easily extractable in the UI element. Would it be possible for you to implement a step where you click the eye and take the URL that pops up in the new tab? That would introduce a lot of extra steps, but would be workable I guess?

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Hey

This one got lost in the migration, so sorry I haven't gotten back to you before. I tried replicating your steps and I also run into problems when trying to get it from the "eye" you click on. An alternative method would be to have the primary tab open, and then click all the links and open them, and then subsequently run through all the tabs and get the links from there. It's a bit of a different approach and might not be the cleanest one, but it could work. I think the missing link in the html setup is a decision from website perspective, so not much we can do? Or maybe someone else has a better idea.

The process of getting URLs from the tabs is also a bit cumbersome, but I covered it here if you are interested: How to | Grab the URL of all tabs in your browser using Power Automate Desktop

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Mathias Kjeldsen

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