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CSS Selector for two different links with the same name

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I have a bit of a complex question:
I have a CSS selector to find the name of a video. Sometimes I have videos with the same name but different dates, therefore different links. The only way I can tell the links apart is from the date at the top. The problem is when I inspect the elements, these videos are not part of the div element where the date is. They are completely separated. I was thinking can I just focus my mouse on the date, and make the selector pick the link only going in a Y axis (so up and down). Do you have any better ideas?

ps: From what I know the links are exactly the same, nothing to distinguish them from one another

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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Yes it is better to take date as reference in your scenario since there is nothing to distinguish

Hope this helps
Usha

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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I assume this is a web page. Have you tried using Extract data from web page to retrieve the entire table into a variable? Then iterate through the data there and use indexes for pointing at the appropriate element in the web page? If it is formatted as a table, it should be possible to use row and column indexes.

But in order for us to be able to help you better, we would need to see what the selectors look like.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @FlashDota

As @UshaJyothi20 said, you need to create a selector which looks after video name after date element providing it as input.

We have to design such a selector. For that please share HTML structure of a the ui element, using JQuery approach we can help in building the selector

Also try the approach as suggested by @Agnius as well, try to figure out the html selector of table and since columns name i think is dates may be that won't be static as always so best possible approach would be add the selector of table while extracting table from webpage and use it to extract data 🙂

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