How to scrape only numbers

hi everyone,

i am completely new to botchief. At the moment i try to figure out, how to build a bot for chat. login works, several ifs work to get to the chatpart of the webpage but then:

more then 300 users wrote me a chat message. So i try to figure out, how to scrape a list of all the userids and save them to a table.

In a list view i see 20 users per page which have written me a massage.

When i am using the scraper to get the userids i find 20 times this. So its perfect.

But i am not able to scrape only the value of rel="", which has to be the userid. Im only getting all of this tag or nothing.

<span class="b-link im_user" rel="479853413" data-uid="479853413"></span>

Thank you in advance

I am very sorry that Botchief can't scrape the value of rel property, but we will add it in next update.

I think you can use other ways to scrape the user_id after you scrape the tag.

Way 1: If the length of the user_id is always 9, you can use Variable Operate->StringInterception to get user_id.

Here is a sample module: Way1_StringInterception.dat

Way 2: Use Replacement and Delimiters function in Variable Operate action.

Here is a sample module: Way2_ReplacementAndDelimiters.dat

I made a mistake. When you find the SPAN tag, you can input the rel property. Then you can scrape the user_id.

Thank you so much. I didnt recognize, that i can put my own input into the properties dropdown. Now its working.

But there comes up another question:

The websites only shows me 20 of about 300 incomming messages. I have to scroll down the list und then an ajax/Javascript loads the next messages. How can i automate this?

If i try to scrape, then scroll, then scrape again, i get most of the user ids three or for times, because the scraper starts from the beginning.

Maybe you can try to scroll down the list first, then scrape. There is no better way to scrape something on the ajax/Javascript page.