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I have a Web Extraction that pulls data from a job posting site. It works for most of the text I need extracted, but on 10%-15% of the rows, it extracts some of the text and the rest it extracts in its source/HTML format, rendering it useless. I need it to only extract the text, not half text then the rest as HTML.

Here is an example of what the problem looks like:

Web Extract Image 3.png

this is the web extraction selector:

Web Extract Image 4.png

my CSS selectors are

html > body > div:eq(0) > div > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > div

div:eq(0) > div > label

div:eq(0) > div > div

I think it must be something with the selector, because the problem shows up in the selector tool:

Web Extract Image 2.png

I need help extracting only the text, not half the text, then some HTML code.

thanks!

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NikosMoutzou Microsoft Employee on at

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Hello @Anonymous !

This is strange behavior, probably it is related to the HTML code of the page.

Could you please try to extract the specific area with a separate action? Either with 'Extract data from web page' or the 'Get details of element on web page'.

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I've been using 'Extract data from web page' and have tried capturing it different ways, like extracting it as a table or list, Extracting a specific section and broadening out to extract a larger chunk of the web content. However, I still get the same html problem, no matter how I slice it.

I tried 'Get details of element on web page' and got the same results: text with the html showing in the middle

Agreed that it's strange behavior. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

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Hi @Anonymous

As a workaround, you could replace the tags for nothing:
This is %NewVar% value: with tags
And this is the %Replaced% value: without tags

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Awesome! I had to rework a few things, but this workaround got me where I need to be. thanks.

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