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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Receive "No CSS selector was found for sample values..."

I'm trying to pull in data using the "Add table using examples" functionality in the Web connector.  After entering the first example, I receive the above error about CSS selector not found.  Entry o...
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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

It could be that or it could be that there actually isn't a CSS selector for the values you are typing in. There are a lot of crap websites out there and this functionality relies on there being an id= or class or something that can consistently identify the data.

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    Greg_Deckler
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    6 years ago

    Yeah, nope I don't see that working. Both of those sites look like they are pulling in dynamic reporting content. It's all embedded content and I highly doubt it is going to have anything useable in the way of CSS identifiers. Oh yeah, look at the source, it is mainly garbage. Can't post it here but it is just a wrapper around embedded content.