What happened to 'Multiple'?

How to?
#1

I have scraped thousands of sites with Web Scraper but what happened to multiple selecting?

Try this one: Cruise Event Gorinchem - Reis Events

I setup a simple Link selector like always, tick the 'Multiple' box, click the first company (image or company name) but whatever I try clicking another company, it doesn't select it. It stays with one red box around the first one I clicked and that's it.

Suppose I only wanted the company names. I setup a Text selector but the 'Multiple' box has disappeared. I now have to choose a multiple type from the dropdown. Again, whatever option I choose from that dropdown, the same happens. I can only select one company name but the other's won't be selected.

I've found this on multiple sites today and yesterday. The only solution is the AI Selectors generator but it's not accurate. It sometimes doesn't seek deep enough (doesn't visit links, like a normal Link selector would).

#2

Hi,

The selectors have indeed been updated in the latest release; however, the issue you have described does not seem to be related to the 'Multiple' option. The extension is choosing the wrong CSS selector value. I will forward this to the developer team for further investigation.

In the meantime, you can manually check the HTML for an appropriate value.

To display multiple values each in a new row, you can select the individual items using the Element selector with the 'Multiple' option enabled to create multiple records, and then use the Text selector to target individual elements as a child selector to the Element selector. This will then produce the same output as using the 'deprecated 'Multiple' selector.

#3

I have been using WebScraper for all of the data on my website.. however when it came to using it again, i'm having trouble extracting data like text and image url's, due to the 'multiple' option now showing...

I need to extract data in different rows, not different columns.

Example: ACCOSSATO | Parts Europe

I need to extract SKU's, Titles, Prices, and Image URL's for the link above.
All of the data needs to be in different rows.

#4

To display multiple values each in a new row, you can select the individual items using the Element selector with the 'Multiple' option enabled to create multiple records, and then use the Text selector to target individual elements as a child selector to the Element selector. This will then produce the same output as using the 'deprecated 'Multiple' selector.

#5

I have tried using your method, however i still can't get the results i want.. maybe i did something wrong, can you please explain step by step? Does 'Text' need to be a seperate selector?

#6

You can achieve that by first creating a wrapper selector and then creating the text selectors inside the wrapper:

{"_id":"partseurope","startUrl":["https://www.partseurope.eu/en/brands/accossato-1"],"selectors":[{"elementLimit":0,"id":"listing-wrapper","multiple":true,"parentSelectors":["_root"],"scroll":false,"selector":"tr.d-lg-table-row","type":"SelectorElement"},{"id":"title","multiple":false,"multipleType":"singleColumn","parentSelectors":["listing-wrapper"],"regex":"","selector":".product-name a","type":"SelectorText"},{"id":"sku","multiple":false,"multipleType":"singleColumn","parentSelectors":["listing-wrapper"],"regex":"","selector":"td:nth-of-type(3)","type":"SelectorText"}]}
#7

Hello again,

Can you please explain in simpler details?
What does the 'Type' need to be? There is either Element Scroll or Element Click..
After choosing the type, what is the next step?

#8

Please import the sitemap from my previous message to see how it's done.

#9

Hello again,

Thank you for providing a copy and paste import, this helped me alot, however i need to also do the same for the prices' text, can you please send me the imported sitemap again with the setting done for prices aswell? Much Appreciated

#11

Hello again, sorry to bother you.. would you be able to help with my request?

I need the coding (the one you told me to copy and paste in import sitemap), but with the code to extract prices aswell.. if you don't have time to do it, would you please at least tell us how to do this step?