Advanced Finder Tool - Syntex Errors

Recipe Writing Help
#1

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Tuesday, 7 March 2023
8:00 AM

I want to scrape only 7 March 2023 8:00 AM

I click on Advanced Finder. A green dotted box shows around the whole thing.

Element’s CSS Classes:
x_zeroPadding

HTML Element Tag:

These are my choices. Both show this in the View Selected HTML

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227 3RD ST SOUTH
LA CROSSE
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
8:00 AM

Everything I choose to put the Date only in the HTML Selection box comes up with the following message.
Syntax error, unrecognized expression:
Seems like the only thing I can scrape is all13 words and numbers from the green box.

#2

Hi DoubleD,

Thanks for posting. Based on your information, it sounds like your data might be a single line of text broken up using HTML styling. Which would explain why you can’t isolate the date.

To parse out the date, you will have to extract the HTML of the text and then use our Column Modify features to break up the data based on <br> tags or you can clean it up later in excel.

Column Modifiers are a paid feature and in order to use them, you will need a paid plan. Once you upgrade you will be able to use any from that list. Any of our paid plans will grant you access to all the features. So you can start with $19.99 a month and work your way up if you wish. You can learn more about Modifiers here: Cols Modify Feature - YouTube