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Screen scraping in UiPath

In this article, we will discuss screen scraping in UiPath.

Purpose

Screen scraping is used to extract data from the specific UI element.

Steps

To implement screen scraping in UiPath.

1. Click on the "Screen Scraping" icon on the top bar of the UIPath studio.

Picture showing the Screen Scraping icon in UiPath studio

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2. A window will appear to select the UI element.

Picture showing the window to select the UI element

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3. The element is selected and the text is displayed in the "Scrape Result Preview" window.

Picture showing the Scrape Result Preview window with the text

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      4. Click on "Finish" to complete the process.

      5. Screen scraping is added in the designer pane.

      6. Set the output to a variable in the properties window.

Picture showing assigning the value to the output variable in the Properties window

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7. Finally, display the value in the message box.

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8. Save and run the bot.

Output

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Scraping methods

As discussed in the figure above. There are three scraping methods.

      1. Full text

            a. Extracts hidden text.

            b. Cannot extract data from screen coordinates.

            c. Fastest and most accurate.

            d. Works in the background.

            e. Works only with the desktop application.

      2. Native

            a. Extracts the text from the screen coordinates.

            b. No background execution.

      3. OCR - This method is useful for extracting those texts which could not be extracted by above 2 methods.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Friday, January 29, 2021

Updated On -	Monday, February 1, 2021

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