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social-media Scenario 3 — Blog Archive — Extract Titles Then Full Articles

Written by RTILA X Engineering Team

Intermediate ~6 min
Prerequisites: social-media/1 social-media/2

What You'll Learn

Navigate user profiles and extract bio data

Real-World Use Case

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The Future of Edge Computing in 2025

First paragraph of the full article content.

Second paragraph with additional details.

Third paragraph wrapping up the article.

techguru42 2024-01-15
EXPECTED OUTPUT

RTILA X PROJECT JSON 

    {
  "name": "Extract_Blog_Archive",
  "settings": {
    "urls": [
      "https://learn.rtila.com/scenarios/social-media/3"
    ]
  },
  "datasets": {
    "archive_entries": {
      "item_selector": "css=.archive-entry",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "title",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.archive-title a"
        },
        {
          "name": "date",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.archive-date"
        },
        {
          "name": "url",
          "type": "attribute",
          "selector": "css=.archive-title a",
          "attribute": "href"
        }
      ]
    },
    "full_articles": {
      "item_selector": "css=.full-article",
      "properties": [
        {
          "name": "full_title",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.full-title"
        },
        {
          "name": "author",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.full-meta .author"
        },
        {
          "name": "date",
          "type": "text",
          "selector": "css=.full-meta .date"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "commands": [
    {
      "command": "wait_for_selector",
      "params": {
        "selector": "css=.archive-entry"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "extract_data",
      "params": {
        "dataset": "archive_entries"
      }
    },
    {
      "command": "for_each",
      "params": {
        "source_type": "dataset",
        "dataset": "archive_entries",
        "as": "entry",
        "do": [
          {
            "command": "goto",
            "params": {
              "url": "${entry.url}"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "wait_for_selector",
            "params": {
              "selector": "css=.full-article"
            }
          },
          {
            "command": "extract_data",
            "params": {
              "dataset": "full_articles"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Archive extraction first collects lightweight index data, then a for_each loop visits each article URL for the full article text.

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