How To Launch Scraper Using Create Project Page And Scrape the UI elements

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview 

2. How to Launch Scraper for Web Automation

3. How to Launch Scraper for Mobile Automation

1. Overview 

This article provides detailed instructions on how to launch a scraper from the Create Project page, scrape UI elements, and navigate back to the Create Project page.
Note: This feature is currently available only for Web and Mobile automation. 

2. How to Launch Scraper for Web Automation

Navigate to the Projects page and click the ‘+’ icon to create a new project. Select Web Automation as the automation type, enter the target URL in the Application URL field, and click Launch. 

Note: If you don’t have the algoScraper extension installed, or if it’s not the latest version, a pop-up will appear prompting you to download the scraper. 

The web page will open with the scraper enabled. You can use the scraper to capture UI elements. , click here to know more about Scarping Web applications. After scraping the UI elements, click the algoQA button to navigate back to the Create Project page, with the scraped file automatically attached.

Enter the project name and click on create, for the project to be created.

3. How to Launch Scraper for Mobile Automation

• For M-Site

Navigate to the Projects page and click the ‘+’ icon to create a new project. Select Mobile Automation as the automation type, check the M-Site checkbox, enter the target URL in the Application URL field, and click Launch. 

Note: If the algoScraper extension is not installed or is not the latest version, a pop-up will appear prompting you to download or update the scraper.

A pop-up will appear saying how to scrape M-Site using algoScraper, Click on this link to know more about scraping M-Site applications.

After scraping the UI elements click algoQA button to navigate back to Create Project Page, with the scraped file automatically attached.

Enter the project name and click on create, for the project to be created.

• For M-App

1. Navigate to the Projects page and click the ‘+’ icon to create a new project. Select Mobile Automation as the automation type, check the M-App checkbox, and click Launch.
   
   
   Note: The mobile device should be connected to the system directly with help of cable or emulator.
   
   
   
   
   
2. When you launch the scraper, if a device is connected, the device name and UDID will be fetched automatically. You have to manually enter the App Package and App Activity, then click Launch Application to start the app. Once the application is launched, enter the Screen Name and click Load Page to make the screen available for scraping.
   
   
3. You can either scrape UI elements individually or click Scrape UI to capture all UI elements at once.
   
4. Click the algoQA button to navigate back to the Create Project page. 
5. You can also open the scraper directly from your local system. Copy the access token from the Create Project page and paste it into the Paste Your Token Here field to connect with algoQA. Then, repeat steps 2, 3, and 4.