Help with Continuous download from the same webpage

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Hi,
I have actually searched the entire blog to download hyperlinks from a website.
All are literally saying about children and Ancestor and also about the looping.
But could someone actually explain it to me with the work flow, cause I am a bit new in RPA

This is the site: Machine Learning authors/titles recent submissions 4
Here I want to download all the PDF’s in the webpage.

Could someone actually help with the situation ?

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Try to use web recording and record the sequence of downloading. Or you can create a sequence with clicks and open browser activity which will download your files

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I have actually carried that out but how do i actually iterate throuh all the pdf’s in the webpage and download each and every one of them ?.. If i record only One file is getting downloaded all the time

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Do one thing use data scrapping that will scrape the whole hyperlinks of PDF for you. Then loop it that scrapped data in for each and download each file

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That sounds like a good idea but can u explain it with a work flow…a simple one just for me to understand the concepts…I am actually new to this RPA uipath

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Use this to scrape data -

this will give you a datatable containing hyperlinks for PDF, then you can try for each loop on that table to perform click/open those hyperlinks

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Thanks a ton brother let me try it…

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Scraping it using DataTable is a good idea.

I tried to implement it using Find Children activity.

DownloadPDFFromPage.xaml (11.4 KB)

Let me know if it helps.

Thanks,
Rammohan B.

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Its showing this error -
DownloadPDFFromPage has thrown an exception

Source: Type into ‘ToolbarWindow32’

Message: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:

Exception Type: SelectorNotFoundException

UiPath.Core.SelectorNotFoundException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:
at UiPath.UiNodeClass.FindFirst(UiFindScope scope, String nodeID)
at UiPath.Core.UiElement.FindFirst(FindScope scope, Selector selector)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at UiPath.Core.Activities.TaskAsyncCodeActivity`1.EndExecute(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.System.Activities.IAsyncCodeActivity.FinishExecution(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityData.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityWorkItem.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)

It actually opened the browser clicked on the first pdf but it doesnt come and click the save button

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Just remove the ‘Type Into’ activity from that workflow and try.

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that last procedure has some problem i think,its not coming and clicking onto the save button in the dialogue box…shall i make a recording of clicking that save button, will that work ?

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Hhmm… It works perfectly for me. So basically you can follow the approach that i used and try to implement it.

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Thanks so much for the help :slight_smile:

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This is also a good idea because in this particular scenario all the elements are on same page

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@Rammohan91 Thanks so much for the help :slight_smile:

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