HTML selector
Output
The HTML selector returns the content inside the selected element, including nested tags. It does not return the selected outer element itself.
Configuration
- Selector - CSS selector for the source element.
- Multiple - Enable only when several HTML fragments should be returned as separate records or values.
Use cases
- Preserve structured descriptions.
- Extract lists, tables or formatting for later processing.
- Store source markup for downstream transformation.
Post-processing
Use the Strip HTML parser in Web Scraper Cloud when the source must be collected as HTML but delivered as normalized plain text.