If you don't want to save the selections you have made, click "Cancel" to return to the builder without saving the changes. If something goes wrong somewhere, you can click the "Reset" button, which clears all selections and columns so you can start again. Once you are happy with your selections, click the "Confirm" button to save your selections. You can also remove any column by clicking the cross in its top corner: You can switch between columns at any time by clicking on the column header. Once you have one column set up, click the "+" button on the preview table to add a new column: Currently you can select text (the default), links, or HTML as the type of data to extract: Make sure that, when you are choosing which elements to put into columns, that each column is related to the others in the data set.Įach column can have its result type changed by clicking on the column header. If the tool is unable to find a good grouping between the elements you have selected, you may get unexpected results. For example, if column A contains names, and column B contains phone numbers, the tool will automatically try and match each name to the phone number it is associated to on the web page. NOTE: when selecting data that has more than one column and more than one row, Axiom will try and group the elements to keep the relationships between them it will assume that the data you are scraping is a list of entries with a common format. This will exclude them from the column's data. If the tool selects too much, you can also remove items from a column by clicking on them. Keep selecting until you can see the data that you want highlighted in orange. It usually only takes 2 or 3 clicks to get the pattern down, but sometimes it may take more.
The tool will automatically try to pick up a pattern in what you have clicked, and will populate similar elements. If something is missing that you want to select, click on this too. Anything selected will be highlighted in orange, and will show up in the preview table at the bottom of the page: To select data for a column, click something you want to scrape on the page. For example, if you were trying to select names, addresses and phone numbers from a list of contact details, this should be created as three columns of data in Axiom: one for name, one for address, and one for phone numbers. You select the data you want to go in each column directly from the page.Ī column is a single type of data that you want to scrape. This will then open the selector tool.Īxiom lets you add scraped data into a table structure, made up of columns and rows.
To choose what data to extract, click the "Select Data" button. The step will automatically fill in the current page as the target page to scrape from. To add the "Get data from a webpage" step, click the "Add a step" to add a new step and select it in the list: To get started with scraping data, you should use the "Get data from a webpage" step.
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