Suman M.

It’s possible to get any attribute of iframe element with Scraper. In this tutorial, we’ll create a field that allows to get iframe element on our content. Please follow the introductions below :

1. Create a data field to get iframe element. Select “Custom Variable” and name it like ‘ iframe_video ‘
2. Type //iframe on xpath field.
3. After that, plugin will automatically fetches the iframe source attribute.
4. Select “attr:src” from properties list.
5. Rename your data field to “iframe_video”
6. Go to shortcodes section and type : <iframe src="{{content}}" width="100%" height="300"></iframe>
7. Now you have {{iframe_video}} variable, you could simply put your video to post_content field on shortcodes section.

If you iframe has special attributes, you could simply apply all of them.

Some websites requires authentication. In this case you could use your own cookies to login to website with Scraper.

To get your cookies please follow instructions below :

1. Go to website you are going to scrape and login normally.
2. After sign in, right-click to anywhere in page and click “Inspect” button.
3. Go to “Application” section on inspector menu.
4. Click the “Cookies” button on sidebar.
5. You’ll see the list of cookies that currently in use by this website.
6. Copy the “Name” and “Value” fields from this list and combine them like this : Name=Value;

Example

1- Copy cookie name and value from inspector tool.

2- Combine values like this : PHPSESSID=valuesample;

3- Open the menu on Scraper visual tool.

4- Copy the cookie string on this field.

After fetching page again, you’ll see that it will be signed in to source site. Scraper will use these cookies on scraping process as well.

You can also scrape from XML or RSS feeds. Please check the following video tutorials:

Tutorial I:

Tutorial II:

1. After installing plugin go to Scraper > “Create New Task” menu.
2. Enter the URL of source website and click fetch button.
3. If you need to scrape single page (it’s for creating one post or updating already created post), then check “Single Post” button.
4. If your post has serial links like posts, products, click the “Select” button on sidebar. This tool is called selector, click with this tool on the post or product title to define serial posts.
5. Check samples for serial scraping and make sure item count is correct.
6. You are done with serial scraping definition. Click on “Post Content” from tabs.
7. Plugin automatically asks if it’s a post or product. You could select one of them, or simply click on “Advance Mode” to build your post structure.
8. All process is same on this section. You could define post title, post content, category or featured image with “Select” button.
9. After completing your scraping model, go to preview section and run your model if it runs properly.
10. Click on “Save Project” button, select your post type, name your task and save it.
11. You could run your task on scheduled task list.

Please watch this video for a simple setup process.