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Hello everyone!
I have an array with multiple keywords. I need to perform data scraping from a website for each of the keyword. The selector I get from the data scraping is this-flipkarterror

Shampoo has to be replaced by a variable that contains the keyword. I tried using * wildcard in the place of shampoo but it hasn’t worked. What is the syntax to pass a variable in title?

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@tara017

I can’t see selector in your post. You have pass variable to selector like this:

 <Attribute name = ' "+variableName.toString+" '>
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I’ve posted a screenshot. Please take a look.

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Hi @tara017

Buddy instead of title with value as the selector has now,

  1. first use a for each loop to iterate through the array
  2. assign a variable to hold each and every value of array with variable name out_array_value of type string
  3. place that variable here in title like
    title = ’ " + out_array_value + " * ’

out_array_value - has other values of shampoo
** can take any string next to it

Hope this would help you
cheer

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Paste the selector in assign statement and replace shampoo with the expression explained in the above post.

And pass the variable in selector of your activity

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I assigned it to a variable ‘b’ for trial & added it to the selector but this is how it turned out
flipkarterror

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@tara017
No Worries buddy you are doing good…try to execute that…

" will get converted to quot automatically with vb thats not a issue

But for variable b, assign with .trim at the end of its value to avoid unwanted space and better replace the other strings next to with *
like this
title=’ " + b + " * ’

To understand this just type title=’ " + b + " * ’ in your reply message to me in left side and see the right side the string getting converted

Cheers.

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I did it. But when its executing, the data scraping is showing the results of the first keyword for all other keywords. For example- my array has {“shampoo”,“conditioner”,“hair oil”}. When I run it in the for loop…It throws out the same scraping results of shampoo for conditioner & hair oil as well.

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Use a for each loop to iterate through this array
and assign the value to b as
b = item.ToString.Trim

If you dont mind can i have view of ur xaml, if possible

Cheers

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Practice.xaml (15.1 KB)

This is the sample workflow without making the changes you have mentioned. I’m trying to do data scraping of all the words in the array & extract first 25 results to an excel. It’s supposed to be pretty straightforward but I’m not able to figure it out.

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Buddy, i think i m unable to open the xaml in my studio, can i have the whole folder a zipped one if possible, Sorry for the inconvenience…
Its easy buddy we can solve this out
@tara017

Cheers

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I’ve shared snippets of my workflow. The idea is pretty simple- Open browser–Navigate to flipkart–in for loop, get keywords from array–enter it in search bar–extract 25 names of the products–write to excel. Thank you so much for trying to help. I appreciate it!

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Hi buddy @tara017,

Its solved buddy, kindly have a look at this xaml file

Flipkrt.xaml (13.3 KB)

Hope it would help you

Cheers.

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THANK YOU! It works! you saved my life. God bless you!!

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Buddy @tara017
Cheers…keep going…!

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