How can i get data from a webpage without scrapingwizard?

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Navigate to http://www.contextures.com/xlSample Data01.html. Retrieve the region and total for a given data, without using the Data Scraping wizard. The date is requested from the user when the workflow is executed and the region and total values are shown in the output panel.
Can somebody give me a summary of what to do here please? is there a way without using find children?It’s so complex

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Hi,

You can try with the get text activity, but you need to find the valid selectors and build a dynamic selector

Eg:

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Hope this helps

Thanks

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Hi @nishu

go to uiexplorer & indicate on screen and check is there aaname property

Thanks
ashwin S

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This is what i have so far…Could you please help me how to finish it off?
Main.xaml (11.1 KB)

Exercise: Navigate to http://www.contextures.com/xlSample Data01.html. Retrieve the region and total for a given data, without using the Data Scraping wizard. The date is requested from the user when the workflow is executed and the region and total values are shown in the output panel.

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Navigate to Excel Sample Data for Training or Testing - Contextures
Retrieve the region and total for a given data, without using the Data Scraping wizard. The date is requested from the user when the workflow is executed and the region and total values are shown in the output panel.
This is what i have so far…Could anyone please help me with how to finish it off?
Main.xaml (6.1 KB)
Please help…