scheduling Scenario 4 — Weekly Report Download

Written by RTILA X Engineering Team

Intermediate ~6 min

Prerequisites: scheduling/1 scheduling/2

What You'll Learn

Chain multiple schedules with dependencies

Real-World Use Case

Orchestrating complex data pipelines

LIVE DEMO

Weekly Reports

Extract report titles and dates, then download each report file.

Weekly Reports

Weekly Report - Week 1 2025-01-05 Download PDF

Weekly Report - Week 2 2025-01-12 Download PDF

Weekly Report - Week 3 2025-01-19 Download PDF

Weekly Report - Week 4 2025-01-26 Download PDF

EXPECTED OUTPUT

Reports

title	date	download_url
Weekly Report - Week 1	2025-01-05	/files/report-week-1.pdf
Weekly Report - Week 2	2025-01-12	/files/report-week-2.pdf
Weekly Report - Week 3	2025-01-19	/files/report-week-3.pdf
Weekly Report - Week 4	2025-01-26	/files/report-week-4.pdf

RTILA X PROJECT JSON

RTILA X Automation Project

weekly-report-download.json

{
  "name": "Weekly_Report_Download",
  "settings": {
    "urls": [
      "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/scheduling/4"
    ]
  },
  "datasets": {
    "reports": {
      "item_selector": "css=.report-item",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "title",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.report-title"
        },
        {
          "name": "date",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.report-date"
        },
        {
          "name": "download_url",
          "type": "attribute",
          "selector": "css=a.report-download",
          "attribute": "href"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "commands": [
    {
      "command": "extract_data",
      "params": {
        "dataset": "reports"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "for_each",
      "params": {
        "source_type": "dataset",
        "dataset": "reports",
        "as": "report",
        "do": [
          {
            "command": "goto",
            "params": {
              "url": "${report.download_url}"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "wait_for_load_state",
            "params": {
              "state": "domcontentloaded"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "wait",
            "params": {
              "timeout": 1500
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Weekly report retrieval combines dataset extraction with a loop that downloads each report file. Scheduling this automation ensures reports are available on a regular basis.

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