Data scraping not working - no results in the data table

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I made a tool that includes data scraping. It’s been working fine last time I used it was a few months ago.
Today I used it again and the data scraping part fails to render the results in the data table.
I checked the selector and it validates.

I made a new scraping data activity from scratch, to be sure. The results show properly in the preview.
But when I run the tool the data table is blank.

Any ideas about what the issue can be…?
Thanks

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Are you working with data scraping (classic) or extract table (modern design)?

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It’s the classic data scraping.

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@anon37829306 Welcome back to UiPath community gave you trued with extract data table activity inside attach browser

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I need the linked URLs from same kind of images from a page, only the URLs.
The modern extract table is more cumbersome for this kind of data, the classic one is more straight forward. Actually I couldn’t get the modern one to work with extracting the URLs.

So I’m fine with the classic one, need some insights about the cause of failure.

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the selector to the element or the selectors from the extract metadata configuration?

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The selector to the element. The selector for data was generated automatically, I didn’t touch it.
I thought maybe the page structure changed and so I created the data scraping again from scratch, those selectors are the same as before.

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when possible share the url, so we can also have a look on it.

when in classic a data scrapping is not working as expected we would recommend to check the following:

  • selector to the target element
  • extract metadata config: Based on the target selector ensure that all following path structures are valid (row definition, col definition)
  • extract metadata config: ensure that no column specific selectors will result to different column values count (e.g. col1 will find 10 values, col2 will find 8 values, due its definition)
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I could finally make it work. What I did was creating a new data scraping, but this time outside of the current Open Browser and Attach Browser activities. And so it worked.

Although the selectors for those activities validated too, I assume the issue was generated by them somehow.

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