Get details of element on web page Action(Power Automate Desktop)

06/20/2023

Get text and other information in a Web page.

This action targets browsers launched with the following actions.

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How to use

First, open the page for which you want to retrieve information.

Then, under "Browser automation" and "Web data extraction", drag "Get details of element on web page" and place it below the browser launch action.

Set parameters.

Specify the target browser (Variables produced by the startup action).

The target Web page must be displayed in the specified browser at the time this action is executed.

Specify the target HTML element.

Click on the input field and the following pops up.

If the UI element is already registered, select the target, If not, click the "Add UI element" button.

Hover the mouse over the target when the following window appears.

When you hover the mouse over it, it will be surrounded by a red frame.

Then hold down the Ctrl key and click.

The input field should appear as shown in the following figure (the text will vary depending on the UI item selected).

Item	Description
Own Text	Get the displayed text.
Title	Get the content of the Title attribute (tooltip that appears when the mouse is hovered over it).
Source Link	Get the src attribute (URL of the image to be displayed) and other attributes of the image (IMG tag).
HRef	Get the href attribute (URL of the link destination), etc., of the action (A tag).
Exists	Get whether the HTML element exists. - Exists...true. - Not exist...false.
Disabled	Gets whether the HTML element is disabled. - Disabled...true. - Enabled...false.

The retrieved value is stored.

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