Pagination working but unable to scrape anything

How to?
#1

The site has javascript that generates a list of D&D monsters and will load the monster stats in the page when ever you click on them. Using the Element Click, I have it so that it will step through each item in the list and load the monster stats in the frame next to it. When I hit data preview, I can watch it on the page stepping through each monster.

However, any child selector I create to scrape the stats text (the name for example) doesn't work. It won't allow me to select anything other than the next item in the list.

https://5e.tools/bestiary.html

Sitemap:
{"_id":"stuff_for_5e","startUrl":["https://5e.tools/bestiary.html"],"selectors":[{"id":"link ID","type":"SelectorElementClick","parentSelectors":["_root"],"selector":"li.row:nth-of-type(n+2) a","multiple":true,"delay":"2000","clickElementSelector":"li.row:nth-of-type(n+2) a","clickType":"clickOnce","discardInitialElements":"do-not-discard","clickElementUniquenessType":"uniqueText"}]}

As a sidebar, is there anyway to limit the number of iterations for data preview? There's over 1,000 monsters and letting the entire thing run takes about an hour before I can see whether or not my changes are working.

#2

A good early effort, but your Element click main selector is too narrow, so it would not allow your scraper to "see" the stats table. The main selector needs to be broad enough to include both the rows you are clicking on, and also the stats table.

To limit your scraper, or for testing purposes you can use type ranges (nth-of-type) for the Click selector. In the example below I have limited it to click only the first eight rows. You can adjust the number in the selector, li.row:nth-of-type(n+2):nth-of-type(-n+9) a

To click all the rows, just change it back to your original selector, li.row:nth-of-type(n+2) a

Sitemap:
{"_id":"stuff_for_5e-v2","startUrl":["https://5e.tools/bestiary.html"],"selectors":[{"id":"link ID","type":"SelectorElementClick","parentSelectors":["_root"],"selector":"div.view-col-wrapper","multiple":true,"delay":"2000","clickElementSelector":"li.row:nth-of-type(n+2):nth-of-type(-n+9) a","clickType":"clickOnce","discardInitialElements":"do-not-discard","clickElementUniquenessType":"uniqueText"},{"id":"Name","type":"SelectorText","parentSelectors":["link ID"],"selector":"span.stats-name","multiple":false,"regex":"","delay":0},{"id":"Desc","type":"SelectorText","parentSelectors":["link ID"],"selector":".mon__wrp-size-type-align i","multiple":false,"regex":"","delay":0}]}

#3

This works great and thank you for the tip on limiting data preview!