You already know the URL of the domain you were scraping (from the first module), so use that and prepend it.
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Yeah, I suppose, was just worried in case it’s something like “/docs/about-us” - if I just added the original link onto the back of the parsed text it may not get the right url?
What do you mean?
If you added https://www.eurogamer.net to /docs/about-us
you get
https://www.eurogamer.net/docs/about-us
If that link is wrong then it was wrong on the original website in the first place.
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Edit: It seems to now work.
Weirdly though, sometimes it puts the FULL url into the sheet - and other times it just puts the text! (I’m always after the full URL)
This is the pattern I’ve put in the text parser: <a[^<“>]?href=“(?[^<”>]+?)"[^<>]>(?[^<”>]?privacy[^<">]?)</a>
Here’s what the parser outputs look like:
Yes, it all depends on what was in the source code of the link tag.
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Reckon there’s much I can do to just get the full URL in all cases? I’m wanting to then pass the links into another automation. If I add the ‘original’ URL to the google sheet appended with the parser output, sometimes I’ll get a URL with double the https:// stuff on. If that makes sense.
I’ve tried it here:
… and here’s the output:
You can see in some cases its doubling the URL within the same row…
Add only when it isn’t present.
Something like this
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Oooo, where do I add that string into?
Your URL (A) field.
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Oh you gotta select the variables from the variables panel.
See how some of the special variables have a background?
Or you can manually type it out like that
{{if(indexOf(2.url; "http") = 0; 2.url; 5.value + 2.url)}}
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Hi Sam, you’ve been a great help - I really appreciate your time and patience. I’m new to this, and finding the whole filtering/regex stuff all a bit over my head. You’ve helped me move things forward so thanks for that - you’ve been great. Cheers
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