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- Release Notes
- Getting Started
- Setup and Configuration
- Automation Projects
- Dependencies
- Types of Workflows
- File Comparison
- Automation Best Practices
- Source Control Integration
- Debugging
- The Diagnostic Tool
- Variables
- Arguments
- Imported Namespaces
- Trigger-based Attended Automation
- Recording
- UI Elements
- Control Flow
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- Object Repository
- Data Scraping
- About Data Scraping
- Example of Using Data Scraping
- Image and Text Automation
- Automating Citrix Technologies
- RDP Automation
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- Logging
- The ScreenScrapeJavaSupport Tool
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- Troubleshooting
- About troubleshooting
- Microsoft App-V support and limitations
- Internet Explorer X64 troubleshooting
- Microsoft Office issues
- Identifying UI elements in PDF with Accessibility options
- Repairing Active Accessibility support
- Automating Applications Running Under a Different Windows User
- Validation of large Windows-legacy projects takes longer than expected
Example of Using Data Scraping
Studio User Guide
Last updated Nov 4, 2024
Example of Using Data Scraping
To better understand how you can take advantage of the data scraping functionality, let's create an automation project that extracts some specific information from Wikipedia and writes it to an Excel spreadsheet. You can use this type of automation in different scenarios, such as extracting lists of products and their prices from e-commerce websites.
Note: It is recommended to run your web automations on Internet Explorer 11 and above, Mozilla Firefox 50 or above, or the latest
version of Google Chrome.
Let’s say you want to start reading up on economics and you want to get a list of Wikipedia articles on the subject, together with their URLs, and the additional information that is provided in the search results for each article. You can do the following: