Properties

WebScrape contains 3 objects: the WebScraper, which reads the webpage and outputs the source code, and two parsers, RegEx and XPath, which use Regular Expressions and XPaths, respectively, to parse the HTML source code.

The "Status" slot of WebScraper contains HTML response codes in case of an error. In the parsers, the status slot will display errors if they occur, and otherwise remain blank.
WebScraper also contains support for basic authentication. The Boolean value Basic Authentication in the property sheet determines whether or not it is used.
Both XPath and RegEx have a Boolean (true/false) variable called isNumeric. This user-defined attribute determines whether the data is parsed as a String (words, phrases, characters, etc.) or as numbers.


NOTE: If isNumeric is set to true and non-numeric data is parsed, the data will not be stored and displayed correctly.