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Convert and format values

Scrape website

Extracts values from HTML with CSS selectors.

Nodes › DataOpen in Neblex
Good for
Reading values from web pages
Role
Works on the records in a flow
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Nodes › Data

When to use it

  • A web page or HTML email holds the values you need and there is no API.

Reach for something else when

Connector stepWhen the system offers an API or connector.

Example

Fetch a supplier's price page and extract every price into a list.

  1. HTTP request
  2. Scrape website
  3. Data table

How it works

Settings
HTML field; CSS selector (for example table.prices td.amount); Attribute (blank = text, or for example href); Collect every match into a list; Into field [value].
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Add it to a flow

  1. Open the flow from Build › Workflows.
  2. Open Nodes and find Scrape website under Data, or search for it. Click it or drag it onto the canvas.
  3. Drag from the previous step's output handle to its input, then open its settings with ✎ Edit.
  4. Run the flow and click the step to see the records it received and produced.

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