Using found in source string as link

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szprot5
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Using found in source string as link

Post by szprot5 » 31 Jul 2017, 18:59

Hello,

I want my project to find "hidden" links in classes <a> etc. etc. the links are just nice looking full urls that sadly are missed when i run my project.
How can i make that thing work?

Example. i want to check whole html source for *messages/t/* fragment and if it finds that - copy whole url and use it to go deeper.

Best Regards
Jacek

Maksym
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Re: Using found in source string as link

Post by Maksym » 01 Aug 2017, 11:09

Hello Jacek,

This is what "Custom Parsers" are there for. They are used to create URLs from page text. If your links are inside attributes of any tag, like this:

<a href="#" some-attribute="http://full-url">some text or image here</a>

then you should create the following Custom Parser:

Expression: some-attrbitute="([^"]+)"
Result: [#1]

Image

This Expression means: take all text that starts after

some-attrbitute="

contains 1 or more symbol that is not "

[^"]+

and finishes before the first occurrence of "

In this case the result will be:

http://full-url

If you give me a piece of real page text - I'll create exact parser that will do the job for you.

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