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How to store the links I want in list variable ?

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Hi


I can loop through the items I want and collect each link for that item. But the variable DownloadLink store only last extracted link. How I can store the extracted links in a list ? I dont need to use excel


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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    That's because you have onlu captured a single item. Try capturing several items via the live web helper. It will usually understand that you're trying to capture a list as soon as you capture at least two or three items. When you do that, it will store the results in a list.

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  • William5234 Profile Picture
    68 on at

    But I store each value from a loop, I cant get all links without looping.

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Can you share some screenshots of your flow? It's a bit difficult to understand what you mean without seeing your flow.

  • William5234 Profile Picture
    68 on at

    I cannot but it is simple:

     

    1- open browser

    2- get list of urls

    3- Loop through these url - begin loop

    4- goto web page

    5- Extract data from web page (here I store the data url in a variable)

    6- end loop

     

    I just need the step 5 to store data in a list

     

     

  • William5234 Profile Picture
    68 on at

    I used now action add item to list variable but when I open the variable I find it creating the new list item inside another row and column with a "More" link. Why is that ?

     

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  • William5234 Profile Picture
    68 on at

    Why the extracted data value (a url) alwayes use the input variable as rows and columns ?

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Well, if you can only extract one URL at a time, but want them all in a list, you need to use Create new list at the beginning of your flow and then use Add item to list after you have extracted it (inside the loop).

    Somewhat like this:

    1. Create new list
    2. open browser
    3. get list of urls
    4. Loop through these url - begin loop
      1. goto web page
      2. Extract data from web page (here I store the data url in a variable)
      3. Add item to list - add the URL you just extracted into the list you created at the beginning of the flow
    5. end loop

     

    This way you will end up with a list of URLs at the end of your loop.

     

    As to your other question regarding Extract data from web page returning a data table - that's just the way the action is designed. If you only need a single value, you're actually better off with using Get details of element in web pageExtract data from web page is usually used when you need more than one value - a list or a table. That's why it's designed to always return a data table, regardless of how many items you need.

     

    If you want to stick to using Extract data from web page, you can still get the value from the table as %DownloadLink[0][0]%.

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  • William5234 Profile Picture
    68 on at

    Many thanks 👏

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