In this blog, allow us to learn intimately about data scraping and screen scraping in UiPath.
What is Data Scraping?
Data scraping may be a technique with the assistance of which structured data are often extracted from web or any application and saved to a database or spreadsheet or .CSV file. UiPath studio also provides the power of knowledge scraping with the assistance of scraping wizard. we will find the scraping wizard under Design tab.
Following is that the screenshot for an equivalent −

Steps for using Data Scraping Wizard with Example
For using UiPath data scraping wizard you’ll follow the subsequent steps −
Step 1 − First, open the online page or application from which you would like to extract the data. We are extracting data from our Google contacts as an example.
Step 2 − Then click the data Scraping button under Design Tab. you’ll get the subsequent message box −

Step 3 − Click the ‘Next’ button and it’ll offer you the choice to pick the primary and last fields within the website you would like to extract the data during this example, you’ll be ready to select from the Google Contacts page.
Step 4 − Once you finished selecting the primary element, it’ll prompt a panel for choosing second element as follows −

Step 5 − Now once you click Next and choose the second element, it’ll prompt another panel with the assistance of which we will customize column headers and chose whether or to not extract URLs.

You can rename the name of the Text column as per your requirement. we’ve renamed column1 it to ‘Name’.
Step 6 − Next, UiPath studio will give us the Extract Wizard to preview the data. it might be our option to Extract Correlated data or finish the extraction here. If you Extract Correlated data, then it’ll again take you to the online page from which you would like to extract the data.

Step 7 − Once you finished the extraction it’ll ask the question” is data spanning multiple pages?” If you’re extracting the data from multiple pages then click on Yes, otherwise No. we’ve clicked No because data extraction here is occurring from single page only.

Step 8 − eventually it’ll create the activity sequence within the Designer tab as follows −

What is Screen Scraping?

UiPath studio provides us methods to extract data from a specified UI element or document. These methods are called screen scraping or output methods. we will find the screen scraping wizard under Design tab.

Screen Scraping Methods

UiPath studio screen scrapping wizard has three methods for scraping data from a specified UI element. the tactic are going to be automatically chosen by UiPath studio and displayed at the highest of the Screen Scraping window.
Now the question arises that if the tactic is chosen automatically, am i able to change it as per my requirement? Yes, it are often changed from Option panel where Scraping Method is written then press the Refresh button.
After clicking the Refresh button, UiPath studio will save the knowledge within the Designer panel. On the opposite side, if you would like to repeat the knowledge to the Clipboard then you’ll click the Finish button.
Screen scraping, as seen within the case of Desktop recording, generates a container containing activities and partial selectors for every activates. you’ll refer the subsequent screenshot −

All the three methods alongside |associate with|keep company with”> accompany different features and therefore the following is that the explanation of all three screen scraping methods along with their features −
• Native − If you select Native screen scraping method then you’ll get the subsequent features.
• No Formatting − because the name suggests, this feature doesn’t extract formatting datarmation from the text.
• Get Words Data − this feature will extract the screen coordinates of every word.
• Custom Separators − This option/field enables us to specify the characters used as separators. If you set this field empty, then all the known text separators are going to be used.
• Full Text − If you select Full Text screen scraping method then you’ll get the subsequent features −
o Ignore Hidden − As name suggests, if you decide on this feature then the hidden text from the chosen UI element won’t be copied.

• Google OCR − If you select Google OCR screen scraping method, then you’ll get the subsequent features −
o OCR Engine − By default, you’ll get the choice Google OCR.
o Languages: By default, you’ll get the choice English.
o Characters − this feature enables us to pick which sort of characters we would like to extract: Any character, Number only, Letters, Uppercase, Lowercase, Phone Numbers, Currency, Date and Custom are the choices you’ll select from.
o Invert − With the assistance of this feature , you’ll invert the colour of the UI element, just in case when the background is darker than the text color, before scraping.
o Scale − As name suggests, this feature will scale the chosen UI element or image. it’s recommended with small images as more the scaling factor is, more you’ll enlarge the image.
o Get Words Data − this feature enables us to urge the on-screen position of each scraped word.

Steps for using Screen Scraping Wizard with Example

For using UiPath screen scraping wizard, you’ll follow the given steps −
Step 1 − First, open the Ui element, could also be a PDF file or Word file or the other , from which you would like to extract the data . Here, we are implementing it on PDF file.
Step 2 − Now, click the Screen Scraping option under Design tab.
Step 3 − Next, click the Ui element from which you would like to extract datarmation, in our example we are clicking on the PDF document.
Step 4 − Now, you’ll get the subsequent screen −

UiPath studio will give the screen scraping method by default, but you’ll change it as per your requirement. we’ve discussed about it earlier also.

Step 5 − Then eventually , you’ll either click Refresh button or Finish button. We clicked Finish button and it’ll be saved within the Designer panel.
As discussed, Screen scraping generates a container containing activities and partial selectors for every activates.
We can see the output within the following screenshot −

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