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nshruthi's avatar
nshruthi
New Contributor II
7 years ago

Extracting file names from html

Hi all,

I have a requirement to fetch files from a rest api service (which is http url). The output of rest-get snap is html ,below is the response we have got Rest Get snap but unable to filter out only filenames from it.


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Is there any way to extract the only filenames from the above?

TIA

4 Replies

  • Supratim's avatar
    Supratim
    Contributor III
    7 years ago

    @nshruthi
    Hi, it’s looking like your rest call return raw data. Can you share your json file /entity ?

  • nshruthi's avatar
    nshruthi
    New Contributor II
    7 years ago

    HI ,

    Found solution. splitting the html line by line in mapper and then using json splitter .

    Thanks

    • tk42's avatar
      tk42
      New Contributor III
      7 years ago

      Other possible solutions:

      1. maybe a json mediaType can be requested from the web service (e.g., Accept or Content-Type headers)

      2. the html might be processed as XML:

        • map the “entity” field to $[‘content’] and then run through Doc->Bin Snap then XML Parser Snap.

      I would prefer #1 over #2 as a lot (most?) of HTML is not well-formed.

      Cheers,