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Sample Tasks -> T75 - Scrape tabular data from web and conditionally transfer it to Excel.

Task Description: Scrape the tabular data from the web and conditionally transfer it to Excel.

Solution
1.Create a new task
  • Click on Tools->Web Recorder
  • Specify your website from where you want to scrape the tabular data.
  • Click on Import Table in the toolbar on the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
  • Click on the table that has the data that you want to scrape for e.g. as shown in Screenshot 1.
  • Specify the path of the csv file where you want to import the data.
  • Click on Stop Recording and Save the task.
2.Import data into Excel 
  • To import the data extracted the import table, into Excel based on certain conditions, you need to edit the recorded task.
  • Select the task in the Task List and click on Edit.
  • Insert a Loop for Each row in an Internet Explorer Table to process all the extracted rows.
  • Insert the condition based on which you want to filter the data. For e.g. the following screenshot shows how to avoid importing names that have last name as Smith. Screenshot 2
  • Insert the actual Keystrokes to import the data into Excel.
  • The final task will look as shown in Screenshot 3
When you run this task it will extract the tabular data and conditionally import the data into Excel.
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