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Dear Community,

I am not able to extract href value using 'record' option from eBay link (air force 1 custom | eBay), you will notice that even though the mouse 'turns' to hand symbol (indicating hyperlink) but PA is unable to fetch the same. I even tried to use Javascript, but even that returns '[object Object]' (basically NOT the url I need):

function ExecuteScript() {
return document.getElementsByClassName("srp-results srp-grid clearfix")[0].getElementsByClassName("s-item__image-section")[0].getElementsByClassName("s-item__image")[0].children[0].href
}

Please help!

Thanks,
Sai

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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Have you tried with
extract data from web page
and get details of the element on web page?
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This is because you are targeting the wrong element. There is no href on the <span> element. It's on the parent <a> element:

You can capture the <span> and then simply remove the two last items of the selector (the div > span) so that the end of your selector is an <a> element.

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I am a bit of novice with HTML, can you be little more specific please?

If I use:
1. document.getElementsByClassName("srp-results srp-grid clearfix")[0].getElementsByClassName("s-item__image-section")[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href ; or
2. document.getElementsByClassName("srp-results srp-grid clearfix")[0].getElementsByClassName("s-item__image-section")[0].getElementsByClassName("s-item__image")[0].children[0].href

I am still getting the href (image) in the browser, then why am I not able to extract it in JS / PAD
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Why exactly are you using JavaScript here? Why not use Extract data from web page, since your previous screenshots indicate you have been trying to capture the elements this way? That is what I was referring to.

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The idea is to extract href (hyperlink) that is highlighted in you post as well. Method is not important, solution is. If you have one, please post.
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Dear Community!

After hours of research (& help from another community), found out how to extract what I needed. Here's the final Javascript&colon;

document.getElementsByClassName("srp-river-results clearfix")[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href

If only the members in this community, simply answered, rather than "suggest".
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Great that you managed to find a solution. But if you had actually read my suggestion and used Extract data from web page, you would not have needed to spend the time figuring out why your JS script doesn't work. No idea why you kept trying to do it with JS, if the method is not important to you.

Your JS will only return the first item. If you used Extract data from web page and targeted the <a> element instead of the <span>, you could retrieve the hrefs of all of the products in the page into a list.

Also, please be aware that this is a voluntary community. None of the members here (apart from some Microsoft employees) are paid to do it. We all have our personal lives and our jobs. It's not like we spend 24/7 on here just so we can answer every question. Nor must we actually provide you with an actual solution that you can copy and paste into your solution. We sometimes do, but we're not always able to. So, if you can just try out the suggestions we make, it would also make your own life easier.
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Sure, but next time try giving an actual solution. People are here just for that - not "suggestions."