- Release notes
- UI-ANA-016 - Pull Open Browser URL
- UI-ANA-017 - ContinueOnError True
- UI-ANA-018 - List OCR/Image Activities
- UI-DBP-006 - Container Usage
- UI-DBP-013 - Excel Automation Misuse
- UI-DBP-030 - Forbidden Variables Usage In Selectors
- ST-DBP-021 - Hardcoded Timeout
- UI-PRR-001 - Simulate Click
- UI-PRR-002 - Simulate Type
- UI-PRR-003 - Open Application Misuse
- UI-PRR-004 - Hardcoded Delays
- UI-REL-001 - Large Idx in Selectors
- UI-SEC-004 - Selector Email Data
- UI-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UI-USG-011 - Non Allowed Attributes
- SY-USG-013 - Private File Invoke
- SY-USG-014 - Incorrect Execution Template Placeholders
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- UiPath Browser Migration Tool
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Click
- Hover
- Type Secure Text
- Send Hotkey
- Type Into
- Check
- Select Item
- Select Multiple Items
- Get Text
- Set Text
- Activate
- Highlight
- Set Focus
- Anchor Base
- Context Aware Anchor
- Find Relative Element
- Indicate On Screen
- Element Exists
- Find Element
- Wait Element Vanish
- Find Children
- Get Ancestor
- Element Scope
- Get Attribute
- Set Clipping Region
- Get Position
- Take Screenshot
- Wait Attribute
- On Element Appear
- On Element Vanish
- Click Text
- Hover Text
- Find Text Position
- Get Full Text
- Get Visible Text
- Extract Structured Data
- Text Exists
- Click OCR Text
- Hover OCR Text
- Get OCR Text
- Find OCR Text Position
- Microsoft OCR
- Microsoft Project Oxford Online OCR
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR
- Tesseract OCR
- Google Cloud Vision OCR
- OCR Text Exists
- Click Image
- Hover Image
- Find Image Matches
- Image Exists
- Find Image
- Wait Image Vanish
- On Image Appear
- On Image Vanish
- Load Image
- Save Image
- Attach Browser
- Close Tab
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Go Home
- Inject JS Script
- Navigate To
- Open Browser
- Refresh Browser
- Set Web Attribute
- Attach Window
- Close Window
- Get Active Window
- Hide Window
- Maximize Window
- Minimize Window
- Move Window
- Restore Window
- Show Window
- Export UI Tree
- Invoke ActiveX Method
- Inject .NET Code
- Click Trigger
- Key Press Trigger
- Click Image Trigger
- System Trigger
- Hotkey Trigger
- Mouse Trigger
- Get Event Info
- Monitor Events
- Get Source Element
- Replay User Event
- Block User Input
- Use Foreground
- Element Attribute Change Trigger
- Element State Change Trigger
- Callout
- Copy Selected Text
- Get From Clipboard
- Set To Clipboard
- Close Application
- Open Application
- Start Process
- Get Password
- Tooltip
- Click Picture on Screen
- Click Toolbar Button
- Read Statusbar
- Select Dates in Calendar
- Select Menu Item
- Expand Tree
- Call Transaction
- SAP Logon
- SAP Login
- Table Cell Scope
- SAP Session Attributes Change Trigger
- Expand ALV Tree
- Expand ALV Hierarchical Table
- Use Application/Browser
- Check App State
- Check/Uncheck
- Click
- Extract Table Data
- Get Text
- Get URL
- Go to URL
- Highlight
- Hover
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Navigate Browser
- Select Item
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Get Attribute
- Get Browser Data
- Set Browser Data
- Mouse Scroll
- Inject Js Script
- Drag and Drop
- For Each UI Element
- Application Event Trigger
- Click Event Trigger
- Keypress Event Trigger
- Set Text
- Check Element
- Perform browser search and retrieve results using UI Automation APIs
- Web Browsing
- Find Images
- Click Images
- Trigger and Monitor Events
- Create and Override Files
- HTML Pages: Extract and Manipulate Information
- Window Manipulation
- Automated List Selection
- Find and Manipulate Window Elements
- Manage Text Automation
- Load and Process Images
- Manage Mouse Activated Actions
- Automate Application Runtime
- Automated Run of a Local Application
- Browser Navigation
- Web Automation
- Trigger Scope Example
- Release Notes
- Project Compatibility
- Get Log Types
- Get Logs
- Get Page Source
- Get Device Orientation
- Get Session Identifier
- Install App
- Manage Current App
- Manage Other App
- Open DeepLink
- Open URL
- Mobile Device Connection
- Positional Swipe
- Press Hardware Button
- Set Device Orientation
- Take Screenshot
- Take Screenshot Part
- Element Exists
- Execute Command
- Get Attribute
- Get Selected Item
- Get Text
- Set Selected Item
- Set Text
- Swipe
- Tap
- Type Text
- Draw Pattern
Extract Structured Data
UiPath.Core.Activities.ExtractData
Extracts data from an indicated web page. You can specify what information to extract by providing an XML string in the ExtractMetadata field, in the Properties panel. This can easily be generated with all the properties set by using the Data Scraping wizard.
Properties
Input
- ExtractMetadata - An XML string that enables you to define what data to extract from the indicated web page.
- Target.Selector - Text property used to find a particular UI element when the activity is executed. It is actually a XML fragment specifying attributes of the GUI element you are looking for and of some of its parents.
- Target.TimeoutMS - Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for the activity to run before the
SelectorNotFoundException
error is thrown. The default value is 30000 milliseconds (30 seconds). -
Target.WaitForReady - Before performing the actions, wait for the target to become ready. The following options are available:
- None - Does not wait for anything except the target UI element to exist before executing the action. For example, you can use this option if you want to retrieve just text from a web page or click a particular button, without having to wait for all UI elements to load. Note that this may have unwanted consequences if the button relies on elements which are not yet loaded, such as scripts.
-
Interactive/Complete - Waits all of the UI elements in the target app to exist before actually executing the action.
To assess if an application is in the Interactive or Complete state, the following tags are verified:
- Desktop applications - A
wm_null
message is sent to check the existence of the<wnd>
,<ctrl>
,<java>
, or<uia>
tags. If they exist, the activity is executed. - Web applications:
- Internet Explorer - The
<webctrl>
tag is used to check if the Ready state of the HTML document is set to Complete. Additionally, the Busy state has to be set to "False". - Others - The
<webctrl>
tag is used to check if the Ready state of the HTML document is Complete.
- SAP applications - First the presence of the
<wnd>
tag verified, after which a SAP specific API is used to detect if the session is busy or not.
- Target.Element - Use the UiElement variable returned by another activity. This property cannot be used alongside the Selector property. This field supports only UiElement variables.
- Target.ClippingRegion - Defines the clipping rectangle, in pixels, relative to the UiElement, in the following directions: left, top, right, bottom. It supports both positive and negative numbers.
Options
- DelayBetweenPagesMS - The amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait until the next page is loaded. (If the loading time of the page is longer, this value should be higher.)
- MaxNumberOfResults - The maximum number of results to be extracted. If the value is 0 all the identified elements are added to the output. The default value is 100.
- NextLinkSelector - The selector that identifies the link/button used to navigate to the next page. Should be relative to the ExistingUiElement property.
- SendWindowMessages - If selected, in the case where the data that is to be extracted spans multiple pages, the click that changes the page is executed by sending a specific message to the target application. This input method can work in the background, is compatible with most desktop apps, but it is not the fastest of the methods. By default, this check box is not selected. If neither this nor the SimulateClick check boxes are selected, the default method simulates the click by using the hardware driver. The default method is the slowest, it cannot work in the background, but it is compatible with all desktop apps.
- SimulateClick - If selected, in the case where the data that is to be extracted spans multiple pages, it simulates the click that changes the page by using the technology of the target application. This input method is the fastest of the three and works in the background. By default, this check box is not selected. If neither this nor the SendWindowMessages check boxes are selected, the default method performs the click using the hardware driver. The default method is the slowest, it cannot work in the background, but it is compatible with all desktop apps.
Output
- DataTable - The information extracted from the indicated web page. This field supports only DataTable variables.
Common
- DisplayName - The display name of the activity.
-
ContinueOnError - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
Note: If this activity is included in Try Catch and the value of the ContinueOnError property is True, no error is caught when the project is executed.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.