xpath in pageFunction

Is this possible?

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extended-salmon•9mo ago

Hello @espressodaily, do I understand correctly, that this is related to the "Web Scraper" Actor? If so, you can use the document.evaluate method. For example:

async function pageFunction() {
    const headerText = document.evaluate('//h3', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null).snapshotItem(0).textContent;
    console.log(`header: ${headerText}`);
    return { headerText };
}

async function pageFunction() {
    const headerText = document.evaluate('//h3', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null).snapshotItem(0).textContent;
    console.log(`header: ${headerText}`);
    return { headerText };
}

plain-purpleOP•9mo ago

sorry, yes! thanks for the response. is it possible to pass variables, e.g. item to extract and xpath from api so that it is not hard coded in pageFunction?

Pepa J•9mo ago

I am sorry @espressodaily unfortunately I am not sure what you mean exactly, can you give us an example what you try to achieve?

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