Web Extraction action gives text and the background HTML

[Duck_Taper]

I have a Web Extraction that pulls data from a job posting site. It works for most of the text I need extracted, but on 10%-15% of the rows, it extracts some of the text and the rest it extracts in its source/HTML format, rendering it useless. I need it to only extract the text, not half text then the rest as HTML.

Here is an example of what the problem looks like:

this is the web extraction selector:

my CSS selectors are 

html > body > div:eq(0) > div > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > div

div:eq(0) > div > label

div:eq(0) > div > div

I think it must be something with the selector, because the problem shows up in the selector tool:

I need help extracting only the text, not half the text, then some HTML code. 

thanks! 

[NikosMoutzou]

Hello @Duck_Taper !

This is strange behavior, probably it is related to the HTML code of the page.

Could you please try to extract the specific area with a separate action? Either with 'Extract data from web page' or the 'Get details of element on web page'.

[Duck_Taper]

I've been using 'Extract data from web page' and have tried capturing it different ways, like extracting it as a table or list, Extracting a specific section and broadening out to extract a larger chunk of the web content.  However, I still get the same html problem, no matter how I slice it. 

I tried 'Get details of element on web page' and got the same results: text with the html showing in the middle

Agreed that it's strange behavior. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[tkuehara · Accepted solution]

Hi @Duck_Taper 

As a workaround, you could replace the tags for nothing:

This is %NewVar% value: with tags

And this is the %Replaced% value: without tags

[Duck_Taper]

Awesome! I had to rework a few things, but this workaround got me where I need to be. thanks.