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Web Scraping - Directory Drill Down Loop

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Hi - I am trying to scrape email addresses from an online directory. The main level of the directory only shows the name of the person, I have to drill down on each person's name individually in order to see their profile page and capture their email address. After which I need to hit the back button to go back to the directory and click on the next person's name. There are 22 pages in the directory. I was able to set up the automation to scrape all of the names from the main pages of the directory, but I can't figure out how to automate the drilling down in to each person's profile and capturing the email address and then coming back to the main page to repeat the process with the next person on the list. Is what I am trying to do even possible?

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  • VJR Profile Picture
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    - Use the "extract data from web page" (Check out some videos on how to use this action)

    - Capture the UI element for the person name. Do it one more time. If you capture two different person names one after the other, then PAD will automatically generate the output in a datatable.

    - Use a "For Each" and loop through all rows of this Datatable

    - Use "Go to webpage" to navigate to each of the URLs in the above table

     

  • PAG Profile Picture
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    Hello @TReazor,

    Maybe this "Basic web scraper" example can guide you to the right track. It's using "Download from Web" actions which is preferred:

    https://power.automate.gallery/basic-web-scraper-built-with-power-automate-for-desktop 

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