Element attribute selector

Element attribute selector can extract an attributes value of an HTML element. For example you could use this selector to extract title attribute from this link: <a href="#" title="my title">link<a>.

Configuration options

  • selector - CSS selector for the element. * multiple type - The way multiple extracted images should be handled.
  • column count - the number of columns returned when multiple type is set to Multiple Records in Multiple Columns
  • attribute name - the attribute that is going to be extracted. For example title, data-id.

Use cases

See Text selector use cases.

Multiple Type

A specific selector can find multiple items on a single site. To handle this a Multiple Type is available when creating the selector. The selected type affects how data is returned

  • First Record Only - returns only the first record extracted. Use when only one record expected
  • Multiple Records in Multiple Columns - returns multiple records split into up to Column Count columns. Enables and Requires filling Column count (defaults to 5)
  • Multiple Records in One Column - returns all extracted records in a single column joined by newline

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