Table Extraction only getting visibile Text

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I am having trouble getting Table Extraction tool to get the entire table. It is only identifying the steps visible on the page without scrolling. Is there a different technique I can use to get all the steps from the highlighted table? The number of objects is dynamic.

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Hi,

It this web application or desktop application?

If web, scrolling to the bottom then scraping may solve this matter.
If the above doesn’t work, first get multiple scraping table using mouse scroll, then merge them and filter out duplicated rows.

Regards,

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Hi Yoichi, just checking, it sounds like it’s not possible to get the portions that are not visible without scrolling? Do you know why that is?

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Hi,

Do you try to extract from Web or Desktop application? If former, hidden content have not been loaded to memory. If latter, it’s limitation of table scraping.

Regards,

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Hey @Nick_Reader ,

Depending on how the table is designed you will only be able to export the visible text. It’s not common, but certain SAP tables work like this as they can be massive, and therefore they only load what’s visible.

Some workarounds, in this case, you’d be seeing if there is any export button, and then read the xlsx/csv, or if within SAP, using scripting to export the table.

Again, 90% of the times tables will be able to be fully scraped, even without them showing data on the screen, but there is this slight chance of that not happening depending on how the table was created, and on which app you are working.

BR,
Ignasi

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Speedy reply! I’m scraping from the web. This website has all the content loaded on the page. It’s just the stuff that is below the screen is not being scraped

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Hi Ignasi, sadly there is no export button. If there was, I’d already be using it! The tables I’m looking at aren’t especially large, around 6 page lengths. I’ll ask about getting a table without sensitive data so I can show you what it looks like.

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Hi,

Perhaps you should raise a new topic regarding your problem, with detailed information such as screenshot, if possible. Because it will help those who face same issue.

Regards,

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