# Basic webscraping with HTTP and Text Parser

**URL:** <https://community.make.com/t/basic-webscraping-with-http-and-text-parser/44666>\
**Category:** Beginner Questions\
**Tags:** web-scraping, functions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/basic-webscraping-with-http-and-text-parser/44666 "2024-07-04T17:19:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Zbulo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/zbulo/32/603_2.png) [@Zbulo](https://community.make.com/u/Zbulo)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/basic-webscraping-with-http-and-text-parser/44666/1 "2024-07-04T17:19:28Z")

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Hello Makers, I have never webscraped before, I was trying to follow threads here on the board, but I’m failing.

Here’s [an example](https://www.hauser-exkursionen.de/fragebogen/c84bf51e-7951-4500-8b80-86c3696c2745) and my failing plan…

1. HTTP make a request module to get the raw html (output attached)
2. UseText parser with match pattern \<div\s+class=“container”\>(.\*?)\</div\> to extrac the div class. This works in [regex101.com](http://regex101.com) with ECMAScript flavor, but doesn’t produce ouput on Make.
3. In the next step, I would have tried using the text parser’s HTML to text function.
4. Then another match pattern to extract the “remark” sections (multiple matches).

The example is maybe too abstract, but any general suggestions how to attempt this would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Ouput.txt](https://community.make.com/uploads/short-url/a7Z78EJbhBglU1MJgHqA3Rh1WPB.txt) (186.3 KB)

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/basic-webscraping-with-http-and-text-parser/44666/2 "2024-07-05T04:27:23Z")

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If you need further assistance, please provide the following:

- save the example in regex101 and paste the link here to prove it works
- screenshot and highlight the text you want to extract

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**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/basic-webscraping-with-http-and-text-parser/44666/3 "2024-10-03T04:37:28Z")

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