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pagination Scenario 7 — Blog List with Article Detail Extraction

Written by RTILA X Engineering Team

Advanced ~10 min
Prerequisites: pagination/3 pagination/4 pagination/5

What You'll Learn

Extract list pages and detail pages in one workflow

Real-World Use Case

Scraping a blog archive with article details

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EXPECTED OUTPUT

RTILA X PROJECT JSON 

    {
  "name": "Blog_List_And_Details",
  "settings": {
    "urls": [
      "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/pagination/7"
    ]
  },
  "datasets": {
    "blog_articles": {
      "item_selector": "css=.blog-post",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "title",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.post-title"
        },
        {
          "name": "excerpt",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.post-excerpt"
        },
        {
          "name": "article_url",
          "type": "attribute",
          "selector": "css=.post-title a",
          "attribute": "href"
        }
      ]
    },
    "full_article": {
      "item_selector": "css=article",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "full_text",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=p"
        },
        {
          "name": "page_url",
          "type": "page_url",
          "selector": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "commands": [
    {
      "command": "wait_for_selector",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.blog-post"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "extract_data",
      "params": {
        "dataset": "blog_articles"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "for_each",
      "params": {
        "source_type": "dataset",
        "dataset": "blog_articles",
        "as": "item",
        "do": [
          {
            "command": "goto",
            "params": {
              "url": "${item.article_url}"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "wait_for_selector",
            "params": {
              "selector": "css=.post-title"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "extract_data",
            "params": {
              "dataset": "full_article"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "go_back",
            "params": {}
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

This advanced workflow demonstrates the for_each pattern with go back navigation. After extracting the list, the automation iterates over each extracted row, opens the detail page, pulls the full article, and returns to the list.

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