Text parser

Integromat Support Team Updated February 13, 2019 05:48

Getting Started with Text Parser

Transformers

Get elements from HTML

Retrieves desired elements from an HTML code.

Continue the execution of the route even if the module returns no results	If enabled, the scenario will not be stopped by this module.
Element type	Select the type of element you want to retrieve from the HTML code. Image, link, or iframe element(s).
HTML	Enter the HTML code you want to retrieve the specified element types from.

HTML to text

HTML	Enter the HTML code you want to convert to plain text.
Line break	Select the type newline (line break). Detailed information about the line break can be found on Wikipedia.
*Uppercase headings*	The text enclosed in the heading tags (e.g. <h2> </h2>) will be converted into uppercase text.

Match pattern

The Match pattern module enables you to find and extract string elements matching a search pattern from a given text. The search pattern is a regular expression (aka regex or regexp), which is a sequence of characters in which each character is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning.

The complete list of metacharacters can be found on the MDN web docs website.
For a tutorial on how to create regular expressions, we recommend the RegexOne website.
For an easy quick regex generator try the Regular Expressions generator.
For experimenting with regular expressions, we recommend the regular expressions 101 website, just make sure to tick the ECMAScript (JavaScript) FLAVOR in the left panel:

Pattern	Enter the regular expression pattern. E.g.`[+-]?(\d+(\.\d+)?\|\.\d+)([eE][+-]?\d+)?` extracts all numerals in the provided text.
Global match	If enabled, the module retrieves all matches in the text. If disabled, the module retrieves only the first entry.
Case sensitive	You can disable the case sensitivity by disabling this option (default=case sensitive).
Multiline	If checked, beginning and end metacharacters (`^` and `$`) will match the beginning or end of each line, not just the very beginning or end of the whole input string.
Continue the execution of the route even if the module returns no results	If enabled, the scenario will not be stopped by this module.
Text	Enter the text you want to match the pattern to.

Example of use

For more information about this module, please refer to the How to connect Email, Text Parser and Google Sheets article.

Data Scraping

Data scraping, sometimes called web scraping, data extraction, or web harvesting is simply the process of collecting data from websites and storing it in your local database or spreadsheets. If you wish to scrape data from a website and you are not familiar with regular expressions, you may use a data scraping tool:

Apify is an excellent tool and we already have it integrated: https://www.integromat.com/en/integrations/apifier
Best Data Scraping Tools for 2018
Web Data Extractors 2019

If the data scraping tool provides a REST API, you can connect to it via our universal HTTP and Webhooks modules. You can also implement an app on your own using Integromat App SDK.

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