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Issue with website pager selector

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Hi to all,

I'm tryng to create a flow that print every single webpage availbable in a website. Of course, the number of this page is dynamic: it depending from the number of elements founded in the database (it colud be 1, 2, ... 7, ... 10 and so on).

Code of page 2

I would like to create this flow:

- If page 2 is available, click on page 2 and print it, otherwide exit;

- If page 3 is available, click on page 3...

and so on...

I tried with Loop cycle using next page but it goes in endless loop, because the nex page button doesn't disappear when the pages are ended (it change only the color of the symbol ">"). So, I'm tryng to do something like this:

my flow test

The issue is that using the standard selector of Power Automate all the page number (and than also the "next page" and "last page" buttons) are catched with their "ordinal" number. This cause a lot of issue issue: "next page" and "last page" are recognized like normal pages and for this reason the flow prints again the last page visualized; and a lot of other strange beaviours...

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I really need help, please!

Thanks to all

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Does the URL change when you navigate to the next page? Or perhaps there is an element on the page itself that contains some sort of an id/number of the current page?

If any of the above is true, build a loop and check if the URL/element value changes after going to the next page. If it doesn't, you can assume you have already printed the last page, and can use Exit loop to stop looping.

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URL is always the same and there are no elemets inside the pages that changes.

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Well then, you could maybe also try extracting the actual values for each page and check if they are the same as those from the previous page. If they are, you'll know you have already printed the last page.

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How to do that?

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Use Extract data from web page to extract the actual data into a list or a table. Then store it in some variable such as %DataFromPreviousPage% and check if the current page is the same as the previous page, or not.

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