Variables In Your Selector with Wildcards?

[Fabier 11]

So I found this other thread on the board that helped me with putting variables into my selectors (basically drop the quote marks): http://ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/7984-how-to-use-a-variable-in-your-selector/

 

But this didn't help me with using wildcards.

 

This is what I'm going for:

 

set(#agentid, "84574574", "Global")
add list to list(%agentevents, $scrape attribute(<href=w"*#agentid*">, "href"), "Delete", "Global")

 

They Key piece being this:

 

<href=w"*#agentid*">

 

I need that agent id variable to turn into an actual variable while still maintaining the wildcards.

 

Basically, there is a collection of links related to a specific "agent id" (its in the HREF) on the page, but I couldn't find any way to group them, so I'm trying to scrape them all into a list. That way I can loop through the list and manipulate each link individually. But I'm having trouble selecting the elements without wildcards .

 

I'd post the page but its behind closed doors which I cannot open up to the public .

 

Any thoughts?

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Hi you can PM me the url you wanted to scrape certain parts.

[k1lv9h 76]

Hi,

 

For variables you need to put them in { }.

ex.

add list to list(%agentevents, $scrape attribute(<href=w"*{#agentid}*">, "href"), "Delete", "Global")

 

Your sample code with the change.

sample-var-in-scrape-attribute-001.ubot

 

Kevin

[Fabier 11]

Oh! You are my knight in shining armor! Where have you been all my life?

 

In short: worked like a charm! Thanks .

[HarryPotter 9]

Kevin!

 

worked like a charm THANK YOU