Get FullText Activity is not consistent between dev and unattended staging environment

cho_cho · May 9, 2022, 9:55pm

Hi Everyone,

I use UiPath to scrape health plan data for my company. For one website: medicare.gov, I use the get full text activity, and then parse out values for insertion into a db.

My script works on my local dev machine, on a work laptop, but does not work on an AWS VM with an unattended bot. As far as I can tell, on the first iteration of plan scraping, the bot fails to scrape any text and has an empty string. After that, it does scrape the string variable as expected, but I get this error that a value I’m parsing out of the string cannot be assigned to an out argument variable in one of my components:

message: Gather Start, End positions within input string to find the length of the string to be sliced out : Can not assign ‘Strings.Mid(in_TherapyServicesText, SliceStart, SliceLen)’ to ‘out_OccupationalTherapyVisit’.

(I’ve fixed this)
or when it does, the format of the string is different than what is being scraped on my dev environment. I’ve also just realized that it’s failing to expand a section of the page to reveal more data it needs in the string to parse values out correctly. (I’ve fixed this)

The main quirk of this script that I can’t explain is that it needs an instance of google to be active on my work laptop, but not on my dev machine for the get full text activity to properly scrape the text. Can anyone explain why?

During runtime, the bot opens up a url to a specific plan on medicare.gov, expands one of the clickable buttons, then scrapes the full text with these selectors:

“wnd app=‘chrome.exe’ cls=‘Chrome_WidgetWin_1’ title=‘’ />
<ctrl name='’ role=‘document’ /”

The resulting string looks like:
@"An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Cambiar a Español
Basics Health & Drug Plans Providers & Services Log in
Back to search results
Humana Gold Plus SNP-DE H0028-007 (HMO D-SNP) Humana
Plan type: Medicare Advantage with drug coverage
SNP type: Dual Eligible
Plan ID: H0028-007-0 Print
Plan website Non-members: phone number 1-800-833-2364 Members: phone number 1-800-457-4708 Contact plan to enroll
What you’ll pay Total monthly premium
$0.00 Health deductible $0.00 Primary doctor $0
copay
Overview Benefits & Costs Drug Coverage Extra Benefits Star Ratings Overview PREMIUMS Total monthly premium $0.00 Health premium $0.00 Drug premium $0.00 Standard Part B premium $170.10 Part B premium reduction No DEDUCTIBLES The amount you must pay each year before your plan starts to pay for covered services or drugs. Health deductible $0 Drug deductible $400.00 MAXIMUM YOU PAY FOR HEALTH SERVICES Maximum you pay for health services $3,450 In-network CONTACT INFORMATION Plan address 500 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Benefits & Costs DOCTOR SERVICES View Provider Network Directory Primary doctor visit $0 copay Specialist visit $0 copay Limits apply TESTS, LABS, & IMAGING Diagnostic tests & procedures $0 copay Limits apply Lab services $0 copay Limits apply Diagnostic radiology services (like MRI) $0 copay Limits apply Outpatient x-rays $0 copay Limits apply Emergency care $0 copay Urgent care $0 copay HOSPITAL SERVICES Inpatient hospital coverage $0 copay Limits apply Outpatient hospital coverage $0 copay Limits apply SKILLED NURSING FACILITY Skilled nursing facility $0 copay Limits apply PREVENTIVE SERVICES Health care to prevent illness or detect illness at an early stage, when treatment is likely to work best (like Pap tests, flu shots, and screening mammograms).
Learn more about your costs for preventive services
Preventive services $0 copay
AMBULANCE
Ground ambulance $0 copay
THERAPY SERVICES
Occupational therapy visit $0 copay Limits apply
Physical therapy & speech & language therapy visit $0 copay Limits apply
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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Outpatient group therapy with a psychiatrist $0 copay Limits apply
Outpatient individual therapy with a psychiatrist $0 copay Limits apply
Outpatient group therapy visit $0 copay Limits apply
Outpatient individual therapy visit $0 copay Limits apply
OPIOID TREATMENT PROGRAM SERVICES
Opioid treatment program services 0% coinsurance Limits apply
OTHER SERVICES
Durable medical equipment (like wheelchairs & oxygen) $0 copay Limits apply
Prosthetics (like braces, artificial limbs) $0 copay Limits apply
Dialysis 0% coinsurance Limits apply
Diabetes supplies $0 copay Limits apply
Drug Coverage
See if there’s help to lower costs for drugs you take.
COSTS BY DRUG TIER
Plans group their drug lists into tiers. The drug costs below show how much you’ll pay for drugs in each tier based on the coverage phase you’re in.
Learn more about drug tiers.
TIER DRUG COST FOR
Change
Tiers Initial coverage phase Gap coverage phase Catastrophic coverage phase Low income subsidy
Preferred Generic $2.00 copay Generic drugs: 25%
Brand-name drugs:
25% Generic drugs: $3.95 copay or 5% (whichever costs more) Brand-name drugs: $9.85 copay or 5% (whichever costs more) Generic drugs: $0 copay; or
$1.35 copay; or
$3.95 copay; or
15%