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Need Help with Creating a Loop for Infinite Scrolling in Power Automate Desktop

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Where to edit or make changes to make it work? Im new at this platform, Couldn't find a solution for it. Screenshot 2023-12-15 160505.png I’m currently working on a web scraping project using Power Automate Desktop. The website I’m trying to scrape is an Indiamart page (https://dir.indiamart.com/impcat/wrinkle-remover-cream.html). The site uses infinite scrolling, with a “Show More Results” button that loads more products when clicked.

I’ve managed to set up actions to focus on the text and click the “Show More” button, but I’m having trouble creating a loop to repeat these actions until all results are loaded.

Additionally, the contact number for each product is hidden behind a “View Mobile Number” button. I need to automate the action of clicking this button before I can scrape the contact number.

Could anyone guide me on how to properly configure a loop for this scenario and automate the click action for the “View Mobile Number” button?

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 229 Moderator on at

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Use for each loop and inside it use click on link in webpage activity and click on the phne number
Then get that phone number using extract data from web page

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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If you need an infinite loop, you can use:

loop while 1=1
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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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As @MichaelAnnis correctly suggested, use a Loop condition (while loop) and make it loop while 1=1. This is an infinite loop. Then use If web page contains to check if the button for loading more results exists, and if it doesn't, then use Exit loop to stop looping.

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