Drop Down Question

[BigEfromDaBX 25]

How do I scrape the options on a drop down list.  I want to be able to get all the options on a particular drop down.  Thanks.

[UBotDev 276]

I think you should check this thread (it solves scraping dropdown with REGEX): http://www.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/14576-scrape-a-dropdown-menu/&do=findComment&comment=81415

 

Hopefully it helps.

[BigEfromDaBX 25]

I think you should check this thread: http://www.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/14576-scrape-a-dropdown-menu/&do=findComment&comment=81415

 

Hopefully it helps.

REGEX!!!!  I been avoiding that like a plague.  I guesss im going to have to learn it lol.  Thanks

[UBotDev 276]

Don't be afraid of REGEX, it's the most useful thing for scraping and you'll need it sooner or later, so I suggest you start learning. I must admit that patterns look really bad, but if you construct them on your own they all make sense.

 

However, you could also solve that without REGEX...for the page that we discussed there you could use code bellow:

navigate("http://www.adoos.com/posting/", "Wait")
wait for element(<name="geo1_id">, "", "Appear")
set(#TMP HTML, $scrape attribute(<name="geo1_id">, "outerhtml"), "Global")
load html(#TMP HTML)
clear list(%statesscraped)
add list to list(%statesscraped, $scrape attribute(<tagname="option">, "innertext"), "Delete", "Global")

Notice that you need to open scraped HTML in a browser because you can't directly scrape "options" tag name from that page, because it includes multiple dropdowns.

 

If there would be only 1 dropdown on the page you could simply use this code:

clear list(%statesscraped)
add list to list(%statesscraped, $scrape attribute(<tagname="option">, "innertext"), "Delete", "Global")

 

[BigEfromDaBX 25]

 

Don't be afraid of REGEX, it's the most useful thing for scraping and you'll need it sooner or later, so I suggest you start learning. I must admit that patterns look really bad, but if you construct them on your own they all make sense.

 

However, you could also solve that without REGEX...for the page that we discussed there you could use code bellow:

navigate("http://www.adoos.com/posting/", "Wait")
wait for element(<name="geo1_id">, "", "Appear")
set(#TMP HTML, $scrape attribute(<name="geo1_id">, "outerhtml"), "Global")
load html(#TMP HTML)
clear list(%statesscraped)
add list to list(%statesscraped, $scrape attribute(<tagname="option">, "innertext"), "Delete", "Global")

Notice that you need to open scraped HTML in a browser because you can't directly scrape "options" tag name from that page, because it includes multiple dropdowns.

 

If there would be only 1 dropdown on the page you could simply use this code:

clear list(%statesscraped)
add list to list(%statesscraped, $scrape attribute(<tagname="option">, "innertext"), "Delete", "Global")

Thanks I donwloaded the editpad lite and watched the three video tutorials on REGEX.   I got it now.  Wasnt as bad as i thought