How to read a particular HTML tag/DOM Object from HTML content

You can either use the Text Parser “Match Pattern” module, or the XML “Perform XPath Query” module. If you can’t do it then it’s probably a misconfiguration, or too advanced for you.

Alternatively,
For web scraping, some apps you can use are ScrapingBee and ScrapeNinja to get content from the page.

I’ve used ScrapeNinja, and you can use jQuery-like selectors there in the extractor function.

ScrapeNinja also can run the page in a web-browser so it closely emulates what users see, as opposed to just the raw page HTML fetched from the HTTP module.

If you want an example, take a look at Grab data from page and url - #5 by samliew

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