Winautomation how to download files from web

So far so good, however, very often, you want to retrieve information displayed into the page in the form of tables or lists, rather than technical values. And this is where the " Extract Data from Web Page " action comes into play:. As with any other web-related action you will first need to specify the web browser instance containing the page you want to extract data from.

The next step is to specify the data itself and finally to select where the extracted data will be stored. The default value is to be written into a newly generated Excel spreadsheet, but to do so you need to have Microsoft Excel installed in your computer. Alternatively you can have the data stored into a variable for further processing by later actions.

Note that the extracted data can be in any of the following forms:. Say that from a web page containing info about a product, your extract the product name only. In this case, if the extracted data is stored into a variable this variable will contain a text value. Handpicked multiple values:. Say that, in our previous example you select to extract not only the product name, but also the description and its price. In this case three separate values will be extracted and the resulting variable will hold a value of type DataRow.

You are no longer in the page containing the product info, but in a page containing the list of all products. If you choose to retrieve all the product names displayed in the page then you'll end up with a list.

Subsequently, the variable holding the extracted data will be of type List. In the previous example of the web page containing a list of products you select to retrieve both the name and the price for each product.

First choose http or https protocol, then enter the remainder of the web address. Choose how you want to retrieve a website's information. Specify how the returned data will be stored.

If you are downloading a webpage, you can choose Get Text so you can access it directly. Otherwise, or if you are downloading a file, choose Save to Disk. Specify the time in seconds that the agent should wait for a connection to be established with the server, before giving up. Choose whether you want to clear all cookies created by similar actions during this Process before this action. Note that WinAutomation does not interact with existing cookies, and that old cookies are not used or affected by the Process, and no new cookies are made by the Process.

Therefore this only applies to cookies created by other Actions in this Process. But please note that you need to have the latest version of WinAutomation and Power Automate Desktop. Only then you can record, test, or run UI automation. After following these steps, you can now create your automation processes. Close Menu Home. RPA Companies. Kryon Systems. RPA Influencers.