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How to capture text from html with no Id's?

b1833b1833 Members
edited September 2011 in Sahi - Open Source
Given the following html:

<h5>Type of Entity</h5>
<p>Corporation</p>
<p>Incorporated: July 2008, UT</p>
<h5>Contact Information</h5>
<span class="employees" itemprop="employees">
<span itemscope itemtype="hxxp://schema.org/Person">Primary Contact: 
<span itemprop="name" class="person">Ms. person1 </span>
 <span itemprop="jobTitle" class="person">(Office Manager)</span></span>
<span itemscope itemtype="hxxp://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name" class="person">Mr. person2 </span>
 <span itemprop="jobTitle" class="person">(Company Contact)</span></span>
<span itemscope itemtype="hxxp://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name" class="person">Mr. person3, DDS </span></span></span>
<h5>Business Category</h5>

(please note: i replaced http with hxxp so it would not be a link in the posting.)

I want to scrape the following:
Primary Contact: Ms. person1 (Office Manager)
Mr. person2 (Company Contact)
Mr. person3, DDS

Basically the list that comes before the next h5 tags.

I can't figure out how to capture these. Is there a way to capture the "employee" class?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

OS X 10.6.7
Firefox 3.6.31
Sahi
Version : V3.5
Build : 2011-04-04

Comments

  • SumitraSumitra Members
    Hi b1833,

    You can try with these:

    _span("(Office Manager)").classList;
    _getText(_span("employees"));

    Let me know if this helps.

    Regards
    Sumitra
  • b1833b1833 Members
    Perfect! I need to review what I did yesteday.
    I thought I tried this one:

    _getText(_span("employees"));

    but when pasted your code into my script the above line worked flawlessly.

    Thank you very much.
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