I've been trying out Web Scraper for about a day. By reading through the forum and watching videos followed by trial-and-error, I found a couple of Selector constructs which have been useful to me:
-Adding :contains("something") to a selector
-Using +div to get the next element
There are probably many more that would help.
Is there a document that describes the syntax and semantics that can be included in a Selector expression?
Thanks.
Rex
Thanks, Lee, but I don't think this is what I'm looking for. They appear to provide syntax for CSS Seletctors, but it doesn't look as though these are the same as what Screen Scraper uses as Selectors. For example, neither of the pages mentions the ones that I saw in examples of Screen Scraper selectors, :contains() and +div. Maybe these are really extensions to CSS selectors, and if so I'd like some documentaton about them and any others that Screen Scraper offers.
Rex
Have not used that other product. AFAIK, WS supports all the standard CSS selectors as listed in the w3schools page. For example, if you want to select a <span> which contains "MyUniqueText", you can use:
span:contains('MyUniqueText')
And if you have somethiing like div + p
it means "Selects all <p> elements that are placed immediately after <div> elements"
You can find all Web Scraper supported CSS selectors in resources that are listed on this page: https://www.webscraper.io/documentation/css-selector .
Thank you leemeng and KristapsWS! The page that KristapsWS pointed to is the one I needed.
Rex