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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** text-parser\
**Created:** [November 18, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/text-parsing-html/61641 "2024-11-18T14:16:10Z")\
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**Author:**  [@AlT](https://community.make.com/u/AlT)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/text-parsing-html/61641/1 "2024-11-18T14:16:10Z")
I have downloaded a page’s html using HTTP get request and now I’m trying to extract the page’s category tags which are shown in the text.
Here’s an example source url: [Example page - see Categories towards the bottom above the map](https://www.discovercarlisle.co.uk/eat-drink/abberley-house)
If the page categories include ‘Accommodation’ ‘Guest House-B&B’ or ‘Restaurant’ etc then I need to extract this info and create a list which I can then populate into a google sheet.
So far, I’ve got the html tag (using chatgpt to create the regex) which contains the category information but I cannot seem to extract just the category text.
The expression I’m using to extract the phrase so far is:
```auto
Categories:\s*((?:<[^>]+>[^<]+]+>\s*,?\s*)+)
```
And that’s giving me this output:
```auto
Accomodation, Guest House-B&B
```
Note: The categories will change for each URL I do a HTTP request for.
In my scenario I need to do further text parsing to extract the category text I need. I’m therefore trying to further reduce the output using a second text parser (I imagine there’s a more succinct way to do this but I’m new to this) This expression is:
```auto
>([^<]+)<
```
…and that’s not working either despite what ChatGPT says. The result of the second text parser is empty.
[blueprint (1).json](https://community.make.com/uploads/short-url/qNzVQj4DKixcsknga9jPqJWXiep.json) (47.9 KB)
Any ideas how I can get just the data back that I need?
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/text-parsing-html/61641/2 "2025-02-16T14:30:34Z")