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Can you scrape an iframe?
If you try to scrape a page that contains an iframe, you won’t get the iframe content; you need to scrape the iframe source. You can use Selenium to scrape iframes by switching to the frame you want to scrape. Check the current URL; it’s the iframe URL, not the original page.
How do I extract an iframe from a website?
In the case of iFrames, the parent page is actually embedding another page inside itself. If the data you want is inside the iFrame, all you have to do is find the URL of the page that’s loaded there. Here’s a quick example.
How do I get cross domain iframe content?
To access cross-domain iframe, the best approach is to use Javascript’s postMessage() method. This method provides a way to securely pass messages across domains.
Where can I use web scraping?
Most Common Uses of Web Scraping
- Lead Generation for Marketing. Web scraping tools can be used to generate leads for marketing.
- Price Comparison & Competition Monitoring.
- E-Commerce.
- Real Estate.
- Data Analysis.
- Academic Research.
- Training and Testing Data for Machine Learning Projects.
- Sports Betting Odds Analysis.
How do I find the parent page of an iframe?
In the case of iFrames, the parent page is actually embedding another page inside itself. If the data you want is inside the iFrame, all you have to do is find the URL of the page that’s loaded there. Here’s a quick example.
What is an iframe in HTML?
An IFrame (Inline Frame) is an HTML code embedded inside another HTML document on a website. It is used to insert content from another source, for example, an advertisement or a table. An Inline Frame is specified by the tag.
How to scrape data from an iframe in octoparse?
If Octoparse does not recognize the items in IFrame, there are two workarounds to scrape the data: 1. We can first extract any items outside the IFrame, and then modify the XPath of the data field. Note to input both the IFrame XPath and Matching XPath. 2.
How to use iframe link to build a task?
Right-click the tag in the browser, choose the option “Copy the link address”, and you can get the link. Using the IFrame link to build a task, it is as easy as scraping a normal page without IFrame. Tips! If there are several IFrame links in the source code, please make sure you are coping the one with the data you need.