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1. #Chrome mac get css selector for selenium how to
2. #Chrome mac get css selector for selenium manual
3. #Chrome mac get css selector for selenium code

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For instance, In the above example where we scrape products, Selenium is not the best method for that. It totally depends on the webpage and amount of data to be scraped. Using Selenium is not the best method to scrap data always. Productnum = bot.FindElementById("product-list-count").Text 'find total number of products

#Chrome mac get css selector for selenium code

Then we go for normal loop to extract all the products to excel sheet.įinal code looks like this : Public Sub expertscraper() Total count of products is displayed in the webpage when loaded first, So I extracted total count of products first, subtracted 36 from it and divided by 36 and rounded it to get total number of clicks to be made on see more button to get all products on the page. Productnum = Mid(productnum, 1, (" ", productnum) - 1)Ĭlicknum = Round((CInt(productnum) - 36) / 36, 0) 'find number of times more products has to be clicked to get all products productnum = bot.FindElementById("product-list-count").Text 'find total number of products

#Chrome mac get css selector for selenium manual

So we’ve to figure out a way to automate extracting all products without any manual intervention. Also total number of products is not same always. Every time see more button is clicked, 36 more products are added. When page loads first, only 36 products are loaded into page, more products are loaded when see more button in clicked at the end of the page. Go to webpage, extract all products, loop through each product and extract data to sheet.īut there is a problem. Mysheet.Cells(i, 3).Value = myproduct.FindElementB圜lass("product-price").TextĪbove code is pretty much the same as in the previous example. Mysheet.Cells(i, 2).Value = Replace(myproduct.FindElementB圜lass("product-description-bullets").Text, vbLf, ",") Mysheet.Cells(i, 1).Value = myproduct.FindElementB圜lass("product-name").Text If myproduct.FindElementB圜lass("product-name").Text "" Then Set myproducts = bot.FindElementsB圜lass("product-container") Public Sub expertscraper()ĭim bot As New WebDriver, myproducts As WebElements, myproduct As WebElement, i As Integer, productnum As String, clicknum As Integer, mysheet As Worksheet Note : This example is purely for learning purpose and not intended for stealing data Goal is to extract products from this webpage

#Chrome mac get css selector for selenium how to

Recently one of the readers of this blog has asked me how to scrape product data from an e-commerce website using selenium VBA. Thats it, we’ve scraped simple data from a website using selenium VBA. Read more about CSS selectors here : Getting started with CSS Selectors Post category has a class named first-category so we use CSS selector FindElementB圜ss(".first-category > a") which means find element with a tag in element with class named post-meta. Post URL is available in href attribute of a tag so we use attribute("href") to get post URL.Post title element has a class name of entry-title, post date has a class name of published so we use FindElementB圜lass method to extract them.I’ve used an integer i to loop through cells in sheet. Now loop through each post in posts and extract post data to mysheet.In this case my sheet name is Coding is Love mysheet is defined as a worksheet, set it to sheetname to which date needs to be extracted.FindElementsByTag method extracts all elements with specified tag. We can look up HTML elements of a page using Right click > Inspect element in chrome. Extract all posts to posts element using FindElementsByTag method as all posts have a HTML tag named article in this blog.First, we start a web driver, go to homepage.Mysheet.Cells(i, 4).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("published").Text On Error Resume Next 'Sticky posts don't have published date so ignore the error if not found Mysheet.Cells(i, 3).Value = post.FindElementB圜ss(".first-category > a").Text Mysheet.Cells(i, 2).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("entry-title").FindElementByTag("a").Attribute("href") Mysheet.Cells(i, 1).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("entry-title").Text So scroll to bottom of the page first then find elements. I have added animations to my homapage which will reveal posts only when scrolled to them. 'Selenium can only view visible elements. Set posts = bot.FindElementsByTag("article")īot.Mouse.moveTo bot.FindElementB圜lass("pagination") Public Sub scrapeCIL()ĭim bot As New WebDriver, posts As WebElements, post As WebElement, i As Integer, mysheet As Worksheet, keys As Selenium.keys We’ll be scraping post title, URL, Category and Published date. This post is all about how to scrape website using selenium VBA in Excel and different methods that are used to scrape data and best practices for scraping. Have a look at that post first as it explains how to get started. This post is continuation to Browser automation in Excel using Selenium VBA.