Basic Question: How to get data from both category page and detail page?

How to?
#1

Hi there, loving https://webscraper.io/ - I can now scrape most things but 1 thing I cant work out... How can I scrape some details on a category page before the scraper follows the link and scrapes the rest of the data?

For example if I go to a website category page and it has 20 boxes that are links to 20 product pages I want to scrape some of the data from each box before scraping the products themselves?

Here is the website I am trying to scrape Second-Hand Commercial Vans for Sale - Vans on Finance

I want to scrape the vehicle manufacturer logo data (alt text) before going to each vehicle's details page to scrape the rest of the data so that I get it in the export on the same line as the rest of the details

I hope that all makes sense??

Thanks

#2

@raindrop Hello, to extract data from multiple listings you can use the 'Element' selector, to navigate further into the details you can use the 'Link' selector(has to be set as a child to the 'Element' selector in order to extract the relevant data within a single row).

Learn more:

Here's a sitemap example:

{"_id":"barnsleyvansales-com","startUrl":["https://www.barnsleyvansales.com/stock-available-now/"],"selectors":[{"id":"wrapper","multiple":true,"parentSelectors":["_root"],"selector":"div.vehicle-list__fancy-card:has(a)","type":"SelectorElement"},{"extractAttribute":"alt","id":"logo","multiple":false,"parentSelectors":["wrapper"],"selector":"img.manufacturer-logo ","type":"SelectorElementAttribute"},{"id":"link","multiple":false,"parentSelectors":["wrapper"],"selector":"a.is-primary","type":"SelectorLink"},{"id":"description","multiple":false,"parentSelectors":["link"],"regex":"","selector":".vehicle-description-content span","type":"SelectorText"}]}

#3

Thank you - it's so simple now I've checked out the example sitemap you provided!