Download from variable list of files

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I need to download from a list of links from a website that vary on a daily basis. For example, today I can see the following

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I need to click on each of the download links to download each of the files and save them

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How can I loop through all the links?

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can u share website link

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It is a restricted website (https://copilote4.fineasy.com).

If it helps, the selector for the download button is as follows:

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If I select the 2nd, the selector is as follows:

<html title='Copilote' />
<webctrl idx='2' parentid='content' tag='A' />

I guess I need a way to find out how many index links there are and then loop through them (somehow)

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You could try using FindChildren activity from the container (use the content element for it) with filter like <webctrl tag='A' />.
It will give you an Enumerable<UiElement> that you can ForEach through.

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@andrzej.kniola: thanks the the guidance.

I donā€™t seem to be able to find the children though.

See the XAML file attached. Iā€™ve added a text box to show me how many items are found, but if finds none

Also, Iā€™m attaching the html code that I think it is relevant to the download items in the website it helps to define properly the Find Children activity.

webSite.html (1.1 KB)
testting.xaml (13.6 KB)

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Thanks for the attachments, it helps to see the structure.

There seems to be a little misunderstanding on how to use FindChildren.
Selector property should point to the container, or in other words first common ancestor.
Filter property should describe what children/descendants you want to find.

In your attached workflow Selector is pointing to a link (or a) element already, and that has no children.

Set your Selector property to something like this (Iā€™m guessing how it looks - check with UiExplorer)
<html title='Copilote' /> <webctrl aaname='content' tag='DIV' />

Set the Filter property to:
<webctrl tag='A' />

You could also check with Scope being FIND_DESCENDANTS instead of FIND_CHILDREN, depending on if itā€™s directly under your container or further down.
Try also searching for other topics with FindChildren, there were some examples somewhere on the forums.

Inside the ForEach donā€™t use selector in the Click activity - pass the item into Element property instead, so that it will use previously found element directly.

Let us know how it goes.

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Thanks @andrzej.kniola. I managed to do some progress with your advice.

I have found the children with "<webctrl />", but it founds 7 rather than 6 (there are 6 download links) With <webctrl tag='A' /> doesnā€™t find anything. Iā€™ve tried to select different parts of the web site, but it didnā€™t make any difference. What Iā€™m selecting now is the part of the screen where the download links are located.
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Maybe web scrapping the page and counting how many ā€˜Downloadā€™ links I could find might help instead?

Selecting item into Element property gives me an error message.
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I managed to make it work with a do while loop instead. The problem I have is that as it finds 7 elements it gives me an error at the end when trying to find and element that can not find.

testting.xaml (12.8 KB)

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Try with this one:
testting (1).xaml (14.3 KB)

Iā€™ve added a childrenFoundArray = ChildrenFound.ToArray to be able to access via index and changed clicks and highlight to use prefound elements.
In the ForEach changed TypeArgument to UiPath.Core.UiElement - it was left as default (Object).

Also added a WriteLine with .Selector.ToString and innertext attribute in the loop and changed the condition a little (you can compare counts directly and string comparison would break if above 10 as with strings "2" < "10" = False). If all of them will return ā€œDownloadā€ and the weird one will return something else, you could filter it out or omit in an If.

Itā€™s interesting that it doesnā€™t find anything with tag ā€˜Aā€™, as judging by the selectors themselves it should, or Iā€™m missing something.

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Pertect!! Thanks @andrzej.kniola. This works very well. And thanks also for the .Selector.ToString tip. The process gets the headings, but like this I can exclude it and just pick up on the ones containing ā€˜Downloadā€™

Thanks again!!

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I tried your solution, but i can not write a line with .selector.toString. There is only ā€œ.selectā€ expression, could you plz help me?

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I have the same issue with you but i can not write a line with .selector.toString. There is only ā€œ.selectā€ expression. could you please tell me what should i do?

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Can you post a screenshot or your xaml?
Are you sure your element is of type UiElement?

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Ohhhh, thankU,!! As you said, my element is not a type of UiElement!! Now I solved my problems!