Scrape Attribute Question

[Arran'sDad 1]

Hi folks, 

 

OK, first question.

 

I made a Bot to scrape Youtube video codes from links on the Video manager page.

 

The html is:

 

<a href="/watch?v=-55U2DIeAYw" class="vm-video-title-content yt-uix-sessionlink" data-sessionlink="ei=CJzZ_Z2XorUCFcuBIQod82TudA%3D%3D">My Movie</a>

 

I use attribute href to give me /watch?v=-55U2DIeAYw, and add this to a list, then table, then save. It works the way I want but I only really want to scrape the code.after v=. How would I go about this when writing the bot? 

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

 

 

[VaultBoss 310]

• You can either use regex directly when scraping, or
• you can scrape just like you did and

  manipulate the text string after that with $replace or other combinations of text functions, as needed.

[Arran'sDad 1]

That is exactly what I'm after. I actually need to replace the start and add a bit to the end. I take it you can do that with text functions?

 

I have no idea about Regex (yet!)

 

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

[VaultBoss 310]

I take it you can do that with text functions?

 

yep

[bestmacros 60]

this should do the trick:

 

 

set(#scraped, "<a href=\"/watch?v=-55U2DIeAYw\" class=\"vm-video-title-content yt-uix-sessionlink\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=CJzZ_Z2XorUCFcuBIQod82TudA%3D%3D\">My Movie</a>", "Global")
set(#index, $find index(#scraped, "v="), "Global")
set(#index2, $find index(#scraped, "class"), "Global")
set(#result, $substring(#scraped, $add(#index, 2), $subtract($subtract(#index2, 4), #index)), "Global")