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Added by BYIB on 26 Jun 2017 at 04:32

Many thanks for a great post which I've now successfully modified to scrape 2 sites I need data from. I can get the innertext but am struggling to get some additional data like an href giving the URL.

In the past, I have copied the HTML into a spreadsheet and parsed the html lines there to get at what I want. I now want to automate this hence my interest in your post. Two questions:

Downloading the HTML of one line so I can manually parse it

Using the element.innerText, I can extract the innerText from the following but what I want to do is to get the URL and each piece of innerText individually to put in fields in Excel:

<h3 class="title">
<a title="I need a freelance data entry &amp;amp; admin " class="job js-paragraph-crop" data-height="65" href="https://www.peopleperhour.com/job/i-need-a-freelance-data-entry-admin-1619501">I need a freelance data entry &amp; admin </a>           
<span class="job-etiquettes">
<span class="etiquette orange">Urgent</span>
/span>
</h3>
<ul class="clearfix member-info horizontal crop">
<li class="hidden-phone">
<i class="fpph fpph-clock-wall"></i>
<span class="hidden-xs">Posted</span>
<time class="crop value" title="26 June 2017">3 hours ago</time>
</li>
<li class="hidden-xs job-location crop js-tooltip" title="The Job can be done remotely from any location">
<i class="fpph fpph-location"></i>
<span class="">Remote</span>
</li>
<li class="hidden-phone">
<i class="fa fa-dot-circle-o"></i>Proposals<span class="value proposal-count">19</span>
</li>

The innerText shows:

Title, Urgent, Time ago posted, Remote, # proposals, etc.

Is there a command I can use to get all the source html text from the "<a" line so I can parse it myself or can you tell me how to access the individual fields including the URL?

Downloading the Full HTML into Excel

A I mentioned, I can manipulate HTML once I paste it into Excel. If I cannot easily do the above, is there a way of pasting all the HTML from a webpage into Excel so I can use my manual methods?

Many thanks in advance for your help; I have spent many hours trawling the Internet for answers but couldn't find anything!

Nick

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